Paris prosecutor: appeals clearance of Air France, Airbus over 2009 …

PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris public prosecutor said on Thursday that he had launched an appeal against a court decision which had cleared European planemaker Airbus and Air France of "involuntary manslaughter" over a 2009 plane crash.

Earlier this month, a French court had cleared the two companies over the charge of "involuntary manslaughter" regarding the 2009 crash, when a plane from Rio de Janeiro to Paris vanished into an Atlantic storm.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta)