Originally Posted by Max Tow
In my experience, the manufacturer's recommendations after first run DFDR are usually an accurate indication of where at least the relevant operating aspects will be found, and in this respect the reported Airbus statement above seems to have many echoes of the previously reported incidents on this thread. Usual caveat that Airbus has a vested interest in the direction of finger-pointing.
The Vice President of Flight Safety at Airbus normally issues an accident information telex to all either type specific (e.g. A318/A319/A320/A321) or all Airbus operators after every significant accident/incident. As far as I can remember back those telexes have always been factual when compared to the official report issued sometimes years later. E.g. they issued one after the Armavia A320 accident, soon after that data was recovered, it was factual, and corresponded to contents of the official report.
The telex normally contains information on the accident/incident, and more importantly manufacturer recommendations (if applicable) to prevent it from happening again.
The telex is not about finger pointing, it is providing the best available information possible to operators from the manufacturer to enhance flight safety to prevent a similar occurrence.