Originally Posted by
YYZjim
Implications of AF447 lawsuit
It has been disclosed (see another thread) that prosecutors in France have brought a lawsuit against Air France in the matter of AF447's mid-Atlantic crash. I haven't seen any real details, ....
Over in another thread ...
Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
These two paragraphs seem to indicate why AF is being prosecuted, and why SNPL thinks Airbus should also be.
While this indictment concludes that AIR FRANCE has been referred to the Correctional Tribunal because of "insufficient information to its crews about the incidents
(of PITOT probes) that occurred in the previous months, their consequences and the procedure apply, in the context of insufficient training of pilots at high altitudes,
a lack of adaptation of their training and a faulty operational treatment, it would be incomprehensible if, for the same reasons, AIRBUS was not dismissed before the
Tribunal to be tried.
Indeed, it was the AIRBUS crew training manual that stated "the effectiveness of the architecture of electric flight controls and the existence of flight laws eliminate
the need to be trained in the recovery manoeuvres of a loss of control of the aircraft on "protected AIRBUS aircraft" by omitting a major fact: after the autopilot is cut
off due to the icing of the PITOT probes the aircraft is no longer protected.
Regards, Peter
PS Used Translate.com as Google Translate seemed to introduce an erroneous negative.