Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
I'm confused - are you saying that Avherald has refuted the cigarette-as-an-ignition-source theory ?
I'm not "
saying" only "
inclined to trust a bit more", based on the two AvHerald comment lines I quoted (but which are a bit too brief to be unambiguous).
Admittedly, my post was also too brief to be unambiguous, the 'cigarette-as-an-ignition-source theory' as such is not refuted, but blaming the Capt. or F/O, as stated in the
Corriere Della Sera newspaper, seems to conflict with the 'information corroborated by testimonies' that both were non-smokers.
With 10 crew on board and smoking in the cockpit not prohibited at the time, the possibility that a cockpit jumpseat was occupied by a smoker, cannot be excluded....