What's the French for déjà vu?
The black box of an Airbus that crashed during an air show in France in 1988 was replaced with another after the accident, a report shows. Pilot Asseline was sentenced to ten months in jail by an appeal's court for manslaughter but he always maintained that the flight data used by investigators and displayed at the trial was a fabrication.
Acting on Mr. Asseline's request, the renowned Institute of Police Forensic Evidence and Criminology (IPSC) of Lausanne (Switzerland) examined documents from the crash and the trials and concluded that the black box of the aircraft had been switched after the accident. Along with its report, the IPSC published photographs of a French Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGAC) official retrieving the black box from the wreckage of the aircraft. After enlarging, a photograph shows straight white stripes on the side of the black box. The black box presented at Mr. Asseline's trials as the original one had angled white lines on its side.
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