CONF iture:
As a pilot community, why didn’t we protect one of us ?
The pilot community did as best they could, as I understand it. But the fact remains that regardless of when M. Asseline demanded thrust, the aircraft was out of its protection regime - too low and too slow - even on approach. He made a mistake and it turned out to be fatal. When that happens to a pilot, all the pilot community can do is help him ameliorate the consequences.
M. Jacquet was not in the aircraft but he
was one of those who sought to absolve M. Asseline by any means necessary, including damaging his own health.
Where the French government could be considered negligent in the case of the Mont St. Odile accident was over how they would introduce a method of inter-city transport (TGV) that would in many cases supercede the existing method (Air Inter), without providing a plan to scale down or restructure Air Inter without major job losses.