AF447: A lawyer wants to sue the French State
A German lawyer representing German and Chinese families of victims of the Air France disaster Rio-Paris flight, which resulted in 228 deaths last year, on Wednesday blamed responsibility for the accident on the French state.
Ulrich von Jeinsen told AFP he intends to file a complaint "against unidentified persons of the French state" which he has said were guilty of not establishing a register of incidents involving speed probes (Pitot), as requested by a European Commission directive dating from 2003.
"Because of this lack of European standards, it is possible that the French government was not aware of 30 incidents involving the freezing of similar instruments for measuring speed at high altitude," according to the firm of Mr. Jeinsen Neu-Anspach, near Frankfurt.
The Office of Investigations and Analysis (BEA), responsible for the technical investigation, believes that the failure of the pitot probes measuring speed is a possible factor in the catastrophe of June 1, 2009 in the [South sic.] Equatorial North Atlantic.
Dr. von Jeinsen wants the judge handling the matter to broaden the scope of his investigation to determine the responsibilities of representatives of the French state.
Le Figaro - AF447: un avocat veut poursuivre l'État
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None of this is going to go anywhere, or go away until the wreckage is found.
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