Yannick Malinge, representative of Airbus said at the House of Representative Investigative Committee (CPI) today that from the data he has from the blackboxes "there was nothing wrong with the airplane, its breaking system or computers". He did not talk and neither he was asked about the modification that Airbus developped for the warning signs when the TL were not in the right position. TAM did not install it.
Yes, the same plane with the same pilots had landed on that same day in Porto Alegre before returning to Congonhas.
TAM is now announcing that it will contract with Goodrich to do the maintenance of the reverse thrust in its planes. They will come and locate in Brazil at TAMīs maintenance center.
Interesting that the Air Force Chief said that the A-319 of the Brazilian President would never take off with a reversor locked out because the President is important. TAM replies that the Manual for A-320 states that this can be done for 10 days.
Yes, the transcription of the voice recording was done first at NTSB and I suppose that Brazilian Officers from Cenipa translated it into English with the team. So the written transcript came to Brazil in English and had to be translated back into Portuguese. Complicated, no?...
Here the first transcription from the NTSB:
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/c...0_saopaulo.pdf