@ Katlpax (and others)
About the "Leaker) - He was interviewed on TV recently, partly to boost a book he has written whose main theme seems to be to attack Air France as being a creaky organisation with a lot of "old school" people on board, resistant to change and anything which might possibly weaken their own position.
Thus, he seems to have been tempted to use the "Nothing to Report" telex from Airbus to announce that, therefore, the AF crew must be to blame, because of failings within the airline. (And to get attention for his apparently tendendtious book).
No wonder the BEA was incensed.
Personally, I thought Le Figaro was one of the more reliable papers, but then, I haven't read it for a long time. Other papers seem to have held their horses, and rightly so.