On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. What began with unreliable airspeed readings quickly turned into a chain of confusion, automation loss, human factors and a fatal aerodynamic stall.
In this episode of Black Box Files, we reconstruct the final minutes of Flight 447, explain what the pilots were facing inside the cockpit, and follow the investigation that took nearly two years to recover the wreckage and the black boxes from almost 4,000 meters beneath the ocean.