The information from the judiciary investigation continues not giving any probable causes. There is obviously not some "major event" that can be plainly observed to have caused the accident.
700 pages, no probable cause found by the judge so far.
Crew workload the past few weeks was normal. Judge wants to question the mechanic technician that did the probe heater "repairs" again as he didn't mention the first time about the reverser having been locked out of service 3 days before (presumably by two fellow technicians). The judge wants to know if he noticed what state the reversers were in.
Another (unspecified in the article) maintenance issue appears a few days before on a flight to/from Barcelona.
July 26th the airplane was taken back to maintenance area while taxiing to t/o from Palma de Mallorca because the pilot felt the front landing gear was making more noise than usual. Mechanics checked for 36min and didn't find anything wrong. The pilots and technicians agreed it was probably caused because the gear was too new (I guess it had recently been replaced/overhauled). Flight continued without incidents to Copenhagen. (Maybe the valve/sensor that feels the weight to indicate "ground mode" was involved?)
So the judge is waiting for more information from the technical investigators to figure out the probable cause and any (if at all) criminal responsabilities.
It seems that only analysis of the FDR (and sound recorder to an extend) can really shed enough light to figure out what most likely happened.
Last edited by justme69; 29th Aug 2008 at 02:45.