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Old 19th Apr 2023, 09:23
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Gary Brown
 
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Just to close out my contribution to this thread, I've now had an opportunity to read the spoken judgement text - however, it has not yet been officially published, along with the full evidence and reasoning. In my own view, the Tribunal found nothing to add to or subtract from the BEA final report of 2011. They did emphasize that, in finding the criminal liability case against Airbus and Air France "not proven" (I'm adopting that Scottish verdict .....), they were emphatically not suggesting that some kind of case against the pilots was proven.

They did announce that fines of 250k euros would be imposed on Airbus and AF for their negligences. Both companies have aleady paid substantial "compensation" to the victims' families, for what that's worth.

As and when I see a link to published verdicts etc, I'll add it in. But they can be very slow to appear here in France.

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