Originally Posted by
RR_NDB
I remember Michel Asseline of Habsheim 320
Here we go again... *sigh*.
I'm sure he's a decent man, but on that day his lack of attention to detail destroyed a million-dollar aircraft and killed three* people. There's nothing else to be said.
This thread is about
AF447, not AA587 or AF296. It's about details that we currently don't know, but will hopefully be salvaged from the FDR and CVR. It is not about bashing the French investigators (who have deservedly overcome the bad press that followed them through the 80s and 90s), whispering surreptitiously about composite empennage lugs (that nevertheless held on considerably past their ultimate design load) or a conspiracy by Airbus Industrie to de-skill the profession of airline pilot (an argument I'd like to see the doubters on here have with A320 Captain Chesley Sullenberger).
[* - h/t ARZ]