French Concorde crash

[ToddD]

Just another case about how there is no control over the plane crash investigations. The airline was half owned by the government, the airplane is half french and the crash is investigated by the french without any control from abroad.
There is a good example how useless the European Aviation Safety Agency is when it comes to plane crash investigations. An airplane crash in Estonia in 2001 of an also half government owned airline and an 8 year trial that is still not finished. No one is really hiding anything so it is a good example that the whole investigation goes out the window once government interests are involved...

In that investigation the officials openly admit that at they messed up the Black box data but they say there is no need to for a correct Black box data (even though the investigation is based on that data). The investigation is done by the people who's interest directly conflict with the investigation and that is actually against the EU rules for the aviation accidents investigations. And they managed to stick in some black box data from a crash in Venezuela into the investigation. The investigation was just just organized to pass the blame. But not only did they get away with all that. A criminal case was started based on that investigation.
So my point is if the french wanted to hide anything, there was nothing stopping them. The Estonian precedent shows that you can mess up aaannnything during the investigation there is no control by EASA, ICAO or anyone else. Of course the French are a lot more professional, so if they had something to hide, we will never find out what it was.

If you want to read more about the Estonian crash.
Hiiumaa An-28 Plane crash investigation blog:
Esnov's Blog English