Therein lies (no pun intended) the most politicised rub.
In the interests of air safety, the BEA should have released the DCVR and DFDR in their entirety and not bowed to any pressures.
DCVR is hashed and bits are missing on grounds of "irrelevancy" and "privacy" i.e. churlish euphemisms for censorship.
No one can claim that the BEA is on par with NSTB, TSB and AAIB.
Remember that in report #1, it wrongly stated the who was sitting where and who was doing what because they and AF thought the recorders would never be found.
It then stumbeld over this whole licence issue where in report #1 does not concur with the retraction in report #3.
Regarding Bonin, the easiest way to find out if he was fully fully qualified to fulfil his task as PIC is his payslip.
All AF pilots get a 6% bonus when they are fully fully qualified.
In anycase, even if they had all the licences in the World, it made no difference because it is what is in one's head that counts not in one's pocket.
I challenge the BEA to release the DCVR as the TSB did for SR111.
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