I wonder which interested party made the largest volume of comments and objections? The one that has the most to lose if the AIBN publishes what they really think presumably
Doesn't Airbus realise that their biggest issue now isn't a technical one, but one of trust? Behaving in such a way to try and protect a dying product will do nothing to repair damaged reputation.
Publishing a "dissenting" appendix by an OEM is a pretty rare occurance IMHO, but was exactly what happened in the accident report for the 1980 Malaysian SA330 Puma fatal crash in Brunei. Which was due to "second stage epicyclic module planetary gear fatigue failure caused loss of the main rotor"
I do find the way that Airbus has behaved since the day of the accident to be very disappointing and actually worse than I would have ever imagined.
