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Does that date Air France had the contents of black boxes
Premonition ? crystal ball ?
Le Figaro - France : Scurit arienne: Air France rappelle l'ordre ses pilotes
Safety: Air France call to order its pilots
F.G. (lefigaro.fr)
24/10/2009 | Updated: 21:30 Comments (173)
At the heart of a controversy related to the crash of Flight 447, the management sent a letter to pilots that has increased tensions with the unions.
Drivers, beware of "over-confidence." The management of Air France regrets, in a letter this week to its drivers, incidents of disrespect of the proceedings, The Tribune revealed in its Saturday edition. The letter, entitled "quite controversial and false debates on flight safety," has aroused the ire of unions.
In this letter, acquired by the business daily, the director of flight operations, Pierre-Marie Gautron, and the director of security for Air France, Etienne Lichtenberger, "point to recent major incidents attributable to non-compliance procedures for flights some drivers. " It cites several recent examples of "deviations" that "have generated risk" as a takeoff continued despite a warning "Config" ["forbidden", ed] before takeoff. For management, "the mere application of procedures would have prevented these events."
"We thought we had control of these risk elementary (...) that the current situation would encourage everyone to be extra vigilant. It is clear that this is not the case, "say the authors of the letter by warning against" over-confidence "drivers. Moreover, speculation about the crash of the AF447 "throw into confusion the minds of some drivers by making them doubt the correctness of our doctrine, our procedures and those of the manufacturer," which should not be the case, said the management of Air France.
Threat of strike
For their part, unions complain that management does not jeopardize its procedures, while a house expertise has been accepted. "How can we launch an audit to change the rules of operation while ensuring that they are infallible?" Asks Erick Derivry, spokesman of the majority union SNPL.
The union representing Air France pilots (SPAF) and Alter, two organizations of minority drivers waved Tuesday threatened a strike if management of the airline persisted in not taking into account their proposals on flight safety . Following the crash of the Airbus A330 of Air France on 1 June between Paris and Rio, which killed 228 people, the SPAF and Alter asking a series of measures, including that of being associated with the study of Air Safety Reports (ASR), written reports by pilots due to incidents.