After two months of trial, a French court has acquitted Airbus and Air France of manslaughter charges over the 2009 crash of Flight 447 from Rio to Paris that killed 228 people. The crash was the result of multiple factors, including pilot error and the icing over of external sensors called pitot tubes. While this is just a fraction of their annual revenues, a conviction for the aviation heavyweights could reverberate through the industry.

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