‘FIGHT FOR JUSTICE’ Air France and Airbus face manslaughter trial over 2009 ‘pilot error’ crash that killed 228 people including five Brits Peter Allen in Paris Updated: May 12 2021, 8:57 ET Peter Allen in Paris Invalid Date, AIR France and Airbus are to face a manslaughter trial for a horror jet crash which killed 228 people including five Brits, judges ruled today. The Appeal Court decision in Paris follows a 12-year fight for justice by families of those who lost their lives in the worst air disaster in French history. 9 9 The Air France passenger jet at the centre of the worst air disaster in French historyCredit: AFP