Originally Posted by
JD-EE
bearfoil, it is documented that AirBus was frantic with the coming air show. I presume they were demanding a release to show their aircraft is not at fault.
Hmm, sounds logical at first glance.
On the other hands sales of transport aircraft is not a spontaneous decision made in the morning at 10am during an Airshow visit.
These are long running processes beginning loooong before such an event. Very often only the formal publication of an order will be communicated during the event.
And the decision processes behind are almost exclusively driven by economics, prices, fleet considerations, maintenance, etc.
Emotions do not have much place there.
Therfore I seriously doubt that this preliminary publication will have any impact on aircraft sales one way or the other.
I also can not believe that BEA will dare to paint a picture of the events only to have two months later a real report which contradicts the general lines of this preliminary note. Would be too embarassing.
All in all my assumption is that the general lines of this note will match quite well to what has happened from a factual perspective but it surely lacks the more subtle things which contributed to the why. And it is often the subtle things which make people act the way they do.
The devil's in the detail.