"Without the FDR to bring in a surprise, the majority of a civil jury (US law) would conclude that Thales, Airbus and Air France share in the negligence that allowed this fleet to continue after five serious incidents caused by icing of obsolescent pitot tubes."
On present evidence, Graybeard -couldn't agree more.........'open and shut''
Buy you a drink in five or six years, when all the hearings and appeals and 'reviews' are done with.............