Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
Like in most accidents if not all, the causes of Air Inter Mt St Odile are many ,
Yes the point I was making, bean counters were the ones that "caused" this catastrophe, because the reasons for the absence of many of the "normal" air frantic equipment being absent were those of "economy" just like the choice of using an inferior AOA pitot resulted in the eventual downing of another perfectly airworthy Airbus AF447.
In both cases the choice between life and death were decided by faceless committees in offices far away from the tragedies, and those responsible have a happy retirement... oh and btw it was Airbus was also responsible for Concorde, and deliberately vandalised the future of the (also perfectly airworthy) British version of it.
In their efforts to save face, all sorts of strange manouevres go on behind the scenes, and it doesn't look better than Boeing.
If in doubt, blame the pilot,is the official way around it.