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The famous plane was heading from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport to New York and ploughed into a hotel in the small town of Gonesse, just one minute 17 seconds after its pilot was told it was on fire

Airbus and Air France had faced potential fines of up to £200,000 each if convicted

A French court on Monday acquitted Air France and plane manufacturer Airbus in a trial over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight in which 228 people lost their lives.

The ruling effectively means that ‘sleeping’ pilots Marc Dubois, David Robert and Pierre-Cedric Bonin were fully responsible

Three Irish women were among the 228 people killed in the tragedy

Paris court clears aviation giants over disaster that killed 228 people flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris

Five British nationals and three Irish doctors were among the 228 passengers killed after the doomed Flight 447, an Airbus 330 that was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean

Cedric Bonin, 32, referred to as an Air France "company baby" due to his junior positions, was the least experienced of the three pilots, but was forced to fly the enormous Airbus 330 through a tropical storm producing crashing thunderstorms

Three Irish doctors were on board the plane that crashed into the Atlantic