"Lastly Air France is suing Continental for the missing DC10 strip, so either they are fools , as something could come out at the trial , big risk for both AFR and the credibility of the BEA, or they know something you and I don’t ."
At risk of sounding like a tiresome xenophobe, don't the french aviation authorities have something of a reputation for pinning the blame on the most convenient foreigner first and establishing the facts later? If memory serves me well, the surviving british pilot of the turboprop that got hit on the runway at CDG a few years ago got arrested in his hospital bed by the french police for manslaughter just a few hours after the accident.
Last edited by Andy_S; 17th November 2003 at 00:28.