NTSB Inquiry isn't fake
Thank you both for the confirmation by posting those e-mail headers.
The NTSB page isn't still updated, but at least, we can be sure that this news is genuine without any doubt. There was so much unreliable informations published about this case that it is always better to verify every source as far as possible.
By the way, this would mean that at least one of Northwest A330s fleet was still flying with THALES C16195AA pitots probes and wasn't upgraded before this June 25th incident, or was it with the new model? It would be interesting to know the full story. TAM communicated early June that they had changed all the probes on their fleet.
Additionnaly, this change isn't really a big deal of $$$: an Air France ground crew declared that it was a 15 mn work per probe and each would cost around $500. The question remains if this would fix those issues of unreliable Air data in severe icing conditions at cruise level.
S~
Olivier
Last edited by takata; 26th Jun 2009 at 10:49.