While I am pleased there appears to be progress being made on determining the cause of the crash, is anyone else concerned about the CVR details being released to the media? I know they haven't released exact transcripts, however telling everyone the crew were screaming before impact serves little purpose other than to titillate curious public and media. This is not the purpose of CVRs nor what pilots agreed to when accepting their presence.
Full agreed. The release of such information to the public, by a head of investigation himself, is totally unprofessional and the French BEA deserves even more mistrust.
Two other notes:
the aircraft was on a DME arc about 16 to 20 NM from touchdown as far as I understand. This is a time when all flight tests should have been done and the gear would not have been extended yet.
Given the Easyjet and Ryanair (BOH) test flight incidents and their possible reason a glance to the XL airways fleet shows only 3 (now 2) A320 and 5 B737. This was probably the first A320 handover flight for the XL crew.