Originally Posted by
atakacs
I really wonder if it is worth the effort and expense. Is the BEA footing the bill? Sure it would be interesting to understand the circumstances of the failure but I was not expecting so much energy into it.
The clue is in the second sentence of the report: "The BEA represents France, State of Operator, State of Registry and State of Design of the aircraft."
Politics...
EDIT: also striking when reading the report is how much use was made by BEA of Airbus resources and subsidiaries. Satellite imagery, ballistic calculations, even the plane carrying the synthetic aperture radar happened to be operated by an Airbus subsidiary.