Originally Posted by
SaturnV
So does the sequence of this 'news' in Figaro start with Airbus sending a telex to its clients and customers and suppliers saying that from a preliminary reading of the FDR, the cause is not an Airbus hardware or software problem.
Not quite. Another article has the telex saying:
A ce stade des analyses préliminaires du DFDR (Flight Data Recorder, ndlr), Airbus n'a pas de recommandation immédiate à faire aux opérateurs
Rough translation:
At this stage of the preliminary analysis of the DFDR, Airbus has no immediate recommendations to make to operators
If that quote is accurate, it absolutely does
not say anything like "because the aircraft was not the problem". It could mean the problem is complicated (not understood yet), or is the pitots (recommendations already issued), or any number of other possibilities. If this is the sole source for the Figaro article, then the journalist might as well be just making things up.
However, the BEA does not say that the Figaro story is contradicted by information already read from the recorders.
No, it doesn't - but their press release (now in english and german also) is pretty blunt.
Further, all the articles seem to be referring to FDR analysis only (ie. not CVR yet - in fact I'm sure I've seen one this morning that explicitly states the CVR data is yet to be analysed). I can't see how you would infer anything about "security procedures" or similar from the FDR.