French prosecutors want Air France to stand trial for manslaughter over a plane crash that killed 228 people a decade ago, a judicial official said.
Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009 when it was travelling from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Paris.
All 228 people aboard the plane were killed.
The judicial official, who was not authorised to speak about the case and asked to remain anonymous, said on Wednesday that prosecutors now want the airline to stand trial for manslaughter.
It comes as they asked that the case against Airbus, the aircraft manufacturer, be dropped due to a lack of sufficient evidence.
In their final summing up of the investigation on Friday, prosecutors cited negligence and insufficient training that lead to chaos in the cockpit.
A report last year that was part of the judicial investigation also blamed the Flight 447 pilots for failing to apply correct procedures, thus losing control of the aircraft.
A plethora of problems appear to have doomed the flight as it travelled through turbulence.
The Accident Investigation Bureau found that external speed sensors were frozen and produced irregular readings on the aircraft, which went into an aerodynamic stall.
The captain was on a rest break when the emergency arose, the autopilot disengaged and the co-pilots struggled to fly the aircraft manually.
Airbus had warned pilots a year earlier about possible incorrect speed readings from the plane's external sensors, known as Pitot tubes, but changed them only after the crash.
Agencies contributed to this report.
