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Air France and aircraft maker Airbus will go on trial in Paris on Monday. The French companies face charges of “involuntary manslaughter” over the 2009 crash of a flight from Brazil, which killed all 228 people aboard. The case focuses on pilot training and a defective speed monitoring probe, which was quickly replaced on planes worldwide in the months after the accident. Flight AF 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic Ocean during a storm in the early hours of 1 June 2009, after it encountered strong turbulence. The A330 was carrying 12 crew members and 216 passengers, in…