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AER Lingus plans to replace crucial air-speed sensors on two of its long-haul aircraft this week, but said the upgrades were already planned prior to last week's devastating Air France crash that ...
PARIS – An Air France memo to its pilots about the crash of Flight 447 says the airline is replacing flight-speed sensors in all its medium- and long-haul Airbus jets. Air France declines to comment ...
Air France has confirmed all its flights using long-haul Airbus jets will be equipped with new speed sensors after last week's disaster, a pilots' union said. The pitot tubes that gauge speed have ...
Airbus is urging airlines to replace most of the "pitot probe" speed sensors on some 200 Airbus A330 and A340 planes in the wake of the crash of an Air France flight en route to Paris from Rio de ...
The European Aviation Safety Agency has ordered that some Airbus jets stop using the type of speed sensor installed on the Air France aircraft that crashed in the Atlantic in May. The agency's ...
Airlines rush to replace sensors; 41 bodies pulled from crash site. June 9, 2009 — -- A total of 41 bodies have now been found in the Atlantic Ocean from Air France flight 447, the airline ...
BRUSSELS: European air safety regulators told world airlines on Friday they will have to replace hundreds of air speed sensors of the type that may have contributed to the Air France Airbus A330 crash ...
This undated picture shows the Air France Airbus 330-200 that crashed May 31. Investigators believe an airspeed sensor malfunction contributed to the crash ...
Air France will replace the airspeed monitors on its Airbus A330s and A340s "within days", after suggestions that this vital instrument could have failed and helped bring down flight 447 over the ...