In response to post 1475:
Your source:
A loud horn designed to alert the crew to equipment problems apparently did not sound, sources familiar with the investigation was quoted as saying.
The MD-82 has a speech system. The warning would be "CONFIG SLATS, CONFIG FLAPS", if they'd forgotten to set them at all.
If the slats were set but not the flaps, you get "CONFIG FLAPS" on it's own. This would be very apparent in the CVR, too.
Felipe Laorden of the Official College of Commercial Aviation Pilots (Copac) was commenting on a report in the US newspaper Wall Street Journal that the MD-82 did not have its wing flaps, which provide extra lift, fully extended.
Laorden said the plane's alert system may have had 'a mechanical or design error.' It had initially been suspected that the problem lie with the plane's reverse thrust, but Wall Street Journal said the engines appeared to have been working properly.
This looks like second-hand information. Here we have a guy unconnected to the investigation commenting on second-hand reports coming out of the WSJ? This isn't news!
ECAM Actions.