There are very few people that will be allowed to speak through any media.
Almost only two:
Gérard Feldzer is one of them. Former Airbus pilot and instructor on Air France. He is retired and is now the Director of the Musée de L'Air et de l'Espace at le Bourget (very nice museum by the way).
François Grangier is the second one. Presented in all the Media as an Airline pilot and aviation accident expert at the BEA. It is almost impossible to know more about FG and particularly what airline employs him. Last time I saw him on TV he said he was just coming back from HKG but no journalist would be impolite enough to ask him on which airline. On some French forum there are (sarcastic) members saying that FG was driving the FGZCP when, while taxiing, it unfortunately cut an A320 horizontal stabilizer. I would therefore tend to think that FG is an AF pilot that is detached to the BEA if needed. Grangier has his own site that you can easily find.
These two persons are allowed to speak about airline crash and especially when it happens to a French airplane.
Because things are going fast and these two can't be everywhere, we can see others members speaking of the accident aircraft on various media. Always AF pilots and always members of the SNPL (syndicat National des Pilotes de Ligne) Union. All these AF employees can speak freely and say what they want about a disaster involving a (their) company aircraft.
FG at the end of a recent French TV talkshow on the 2nd of June ("C dans l'air" on France5 ) said something astonishing but very revealing of his state of mine. At the end of the emission some selected questions from the audience are sent by SMS. One question was about the ability of the submarine's sonar to get an echo from the bottom of the sea. FG sharply answered "Dead bodies doesn't make noise."
Unfortunately the broadcasting is not available in its integrality now. But you can see the latest one here (with GF of course, see below please).
My personnal feeling and I'm very sorry to say that, is that some people within official bodies in France are praying that these boxes shall never be found.
The "C dans l'air" talkshow of the 16th of June was titled : AF447 corpses are "speaking" (still watchable in its integrality but not for long I'm fraid because it's reduced after a while)
C dans l'air - France 5
Well only the fact that bodies were found 80km apart was discussed but nothing else interesting and, rather amazingly no doctors expert in autopsy were present. At the very last seconds of the talkshow there's a SMS question : Is the BEA independant from manufacturers, economic pressure or Grandes Ecoles? Answer by GF ( not FG this time...): No.....the BEA is (people starting to smile) influenced by nobody...heu yes it's the contrary, it's independant. Phew!
About the BEA. Some months ago their internet address was
Bienvenue sur le site du Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses (yes .org !)to underline their total and absolute independancy from any States, Authorities and lobbies whatsoever.
This address/URL has changed (redirected) but if you still type it like this (or follow the link) you will reach the site. For how long? The BEA is depending of course of the Civil Aviation General Direction (DGAC) subsidiary of the French Ministry of Transport. We do not know the exact constitution of the investigation team. Who they are is a mistery. BEA is not the NTSB. Nothing on its site about that. Is there any member(s) of Airbus and/or AF, the answer is yes or very likely no, but normal ordinary French citizen still don't know about that. But the BEA is independant. Like in any modern western countries.
BEA has announced that it will try to publish a report before the end of June. It simply forget to mention that it is ICAO mandatory to publish an "intermediary" one within one month of an aviation accident.
What we know is that Paul-Louis Arslanian is the Chairman of the BEA. There was a press conference yesterday hold at the BEA office at Le Bourget. Nothing special happens except that BEA is saying that they know nothing about the bodies recovered. It can't be serious because we read these informations via the internet from Brazilian side. PLA is very displeased because the Brazilian medical team has forbidden to a BEA expert to enter their forensic laboratory at Recife. There are already 3 French experts in the place who are working with the Brazilian specialists but the BEA wanted their one to participate.
PLA became nervous near the end of this recording:
YouTube - Conf de presse du Bea sur AF447 news BFM 170609
When a Brazilian journalist asked a question (+5mn47sec). We can hardly hear the question (in French) of the journalist but PLA said that he doesn't speak Brazilian (this journalist spoke a perfect French) and somehow abruptly give the parole to another journalist. This new journalist (female) questionned PLA on something ( I could not understand because journalists did not have a microphone) and he became irritated again.
At +2'34'' he said something about bodies "Tous les corps qui sont ou seront trouvés seront récupérés."
"all bodies that are found or will be found will be recovered" We can then hear some people starting to laugh.
Later on (+5'00) he said that "May be we are effectively approaching a little bit more of the goal" : "on se rapproche peut-être effectivement un peu du but" (with a restrained smile).
About the forensic specialists :
Le Figaro - Flash actu : AF 447: couac entre le Brésil et le BEA
sorry everything is in French but at least for the newspapers there are easy way to translate.