Originally Posted by
jcjeant
Hi,
Not at all ...
For the Concorde case the AAIB was involved ...
But the AAIB was under constraint and had no access to all evidences ..........
I have not a link .. but all this is explained in a report of the AAIB about their findings for Concorde crash.
If you can participate in a BEA investigation but can't access to some evidence .. what the heck ?
Hope this will not be the case for AF447
I believe that rather than the BEA constraining the AAIB,
both the BEA and the AAIB were constrained by the French judicial investigation.
The BEA, being French and used to such things, worked around it. The AAIB complained that they were impeded and that this was a breach of international conventions and EU directives.
To my recollection, I don't think the AAIB complained that anything affected the validity of the
conclusions, but it defintiely annoyed them and delayed things.