Flying over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, an Air France jetliner was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya after a passenger noticed a suspicious device in the bathroom. Later, the CEO of Air France said the scare was a “false alarm.”
A week after protestors tore executives’ shirts off in a demonstration against impending job cuts, the Guardian reports that six Air France workers have been arrested.
Enraged about a plan that would eliminate thousands of jobs from the company, Air France workers stormed a meeting between executives and union representatives today, tearing shirts from the backs of two managers, who eventually fled the meeting under a police escort.
Investigators say an Air France flight full of passengers flew dangerously close to an active volcano earlier this month after the pilots veered off course during a storm.
Fighter jets scrambled on Monday to escort Air France Flight 22, an Airbus A-330 out of Charles De Gaulle Airport, to John F. Kennedy Airport, after anonymous threats were made against the flight.
A Beirut-bound Air France flight en route from Paris had to be diverted to Damascus Wednesday night, ironically due to civil unrest in Lebanon.
Gérard Depardieu was on an airplane with 100 other people and had to pee, but the flight attendant said he couldn't go until after takeoff. So the legendary French actor took matters into his own hands: He whipped out his dick and peed in the aisle. No, seriously:
Regardless of whether he's guilty of allegedly raping a hotel maid, Dominique Strauss-Kahn should probably be kept away from all women, forever. His conduct was so ridiculous that Air France reportedly ordered an all-male flight crew to wait on DSK.
Two planes collided at JFK tonight when an Air France Airbus A380—the world's largest commercial passenger jet—clipped a much smaller plane while taxiing on the runway.
An Air France flight attendant has confessed to 27 counts of theft after she took cash and jewelry off of passengers while they slept in first and business class. And authorities think that she's responsible for even more mile-high robberies.
The debris and oil slick found floating in the Atlantic yesterday was not from the crash of Flight 447 after all, Brazilian searchers say. They still think they've found wreckage from the crash; ABC News says that's an open question.
Sad and scary news: Several days before Air France Flight 447 vanished from the sky, a bomb threat delayed another flight from South America to France.
The Brazilian Air Force, searching for signs of the Air France flight that disappeared yesterday with 228 people on board, has located debris, including oil and an airplane seat, floating in the water 400 miles off the coast of Brazil's Fernando de Noronha island.
Mathias Guerrand-Hermès, an heir to the French fashion house (and the ex-husband of the socialite Valesca Guerrand-Hermès), was arraigned today on charges he assaulted an Air France captain on a flight from Paris on Tuesday and then tried to grab the pilot's crotch and punch him. It took four people to subdue him…
