At risk of soundiing 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.
Too true! It was actually ATC at fault. Doubly-so for using French instead of English RT to their national aircraft so the British pilots didn't have a mental picture of the ground movements and so were unable to deduce that ATC had cocked up big time.
And what about the stitch-up following the crash of the TU144 at the Paris Air Show according to a TV documentary a few years back? Wasn't there rumoured to have been a French Mirage in the air at the same time, and the Russian pilot (who had been assured he had the airspace to himself for his display) had to manouvre sharply to avoid a mid air, and the aeroplane broke up trying to avoid hitting the ground in the recovery?
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