Originally Posted by BOAC
Here's another hare to start running. From Der Spiegel, I believe:
"Just over a year ago, Hüttig recreated the Air France crash in a flight simulator. In the course of the exercise, Hüttig noticed a strange anomaly in the plane's reaction once it goes into a stall. The trimmable horizontal stabilizer, a flap instrumental in keeping the plane on an even keel, automatically adjusted to push the nose of the plane skyward. Hüttig, a former Airbus pilot himself, and other pilots present for the test were unable to push the nose of the airplane down and thereby escape the stall.
When the BEA released its preliminary report last Friday, Hüttig immediately zeroed in on data relating to the trimmable horizontal stabilizer. During the final minutes of flight AF 447 as it plunged toward the Atlantic, the flap moved from a 3 degree deflection to a 13 degree deflection, almost the maximum possible. "The phenomenon is startlingly similar," he told SPIEGEL......
BOAC, independent if there is some real basis behind Hüttig's "findings" or not,
this guy and his collegue professor and lawyer Elmar Giemulla have an agenda.
And this agenda is MONEY.
Hüttig works in support of Giemulla, who represents the interests and claims of the relatives of the German victims of the accident.
Already in May 2010, Giemulla publicly announced that he files a lawsuit against... guess who? not Airbus, not Air France, but the French government (to be turned in in July 2010, no idea if it ever actually happened). Reasoning: The French government is shareholder of AF and Airbus and this has failed its responsibility to properly control the actions and processes of the respective companies.
Well, in the best tradition of American lawyer, allways sue those who really have the money and who can be made pay most likely, no matter whose fault it really was.
Already in November 2009, Guiemulla claimed, AF would bear the main responsibility for the crash. Well who needs to find FDR on the bottom of the ocean and perform a thorough accident investigation? BEA should simply ask the lawyer, they know it all.
Also already in Nov 2009, Giemulla stated that he expects to achieve a 6digit number of compensation for each victim (i.e. >1 million Euro).
Well, whatever these guy tout as "findings", I would recomment to handle with extreme care. They have an unambiguous interest in who has to to blamed.