Originally Posted by
wes_wall
IMHO, Don’t expect any quick news as a result of the recorder recoveries. They still have to be examined, and here lies a very big pit fall. So many things can cause this task to be delayed, or totally not possible. Decay, corrupted data, non exsistant data due to power disruption or failure, or some other reason…..and I hesitate to mention what we all know – A government investigating itself. One could say, BEA owns a big stake in Air France, their boss, the French Gov’t, owns a big stake in Air Bus, and I wonder what the connection between the French Govt and Thales might be. Oh well, just piggy backing on earlier posts.
I hope that I am way off base. The industry deserves a true and accurate accounting of all available information. Not another CO airplane part deal. There is still a way to go. This is not over yet.
Politics can get in the way in other ways too - Brazil refused to release info earlier in this investigation, and as someone else has already mentioned, there was a big delay in a previous investigation when the recorders had to go to the US for data extraction - a political delay in agreeing judicial custody.
So far in this crash, BEA
appear to have been fairly open with what they have got - although there is plenty of disagreement with some of their analysis and conclusion
Brazil were more of a problem early on - they took custody of the recovered bodies and then refused to release autopsy details (to the investigation, not just the public).
In contrast, look at recent Airbus crashes at Tripoli and Comoros - boxes recovered, data read (allegedly), reports... not released at all. Nothing. Maybe BEA is more independent than some here are giving it credit for, and Airbus can actually buy more influence in African countries than at home ??