I understand how a lot of the threaders here, not being fluent in french (or have NIL notion of it at all) have difficulties understanding the BEA statement regarding the "probable" way the aircraft impacted the water.
Can you please trust the french speaking airmen here present, who KNOW both languages, especially the aeronautical terms, to translate what this means without having to submit other ludicrous attempts at google translating and other wikipedia electronic translations and so on, to get a CLUE !!
As stated previously, "en ligne de vol" means "flight attitude", which does mean attitude of the aircraft.
They mean it impacted flat, that's all.
Please don't ANY not french speaking person tell me this is not correct !!
