Hi,
BOAC
I still remain surprised that the 2001 near accident to the 340 which entered an un-commanded zoom climb to a very low speed remains dismissed by many?
And I still remain surprised that the AF445 event remain dismissed by many
Even the BEA was forced to remain dismissed
However, investigators have recently received a new report, more substantial than the first. "He has no objective value, says one close to the investigation. The company has just said it was a non-event and that the crew may have overreacted. " The side of the BEA, the investigators' regret not having the AF445 flight data that could shed new light on what occurred on Flight 447. "
On Dec 17th the French BEA reported, that according to the air safety report (ASR) filed by the captain immediately after arrival in Paris the airplane was at FL380 about 60nm ahead of DEKON on airway UN866, when weather forced the crew to divert from the airway and descend to FL360 employing oceanic contingency procedures after being unable to obtain clearance from ATC. Air France however did not forward the ASR to the BEA within 72 hours as required by law. Instead, the airplane was dispatched again without downloading the flight data recorder, according to the airline the airplane flew to Bangalore (India) and back (flight AF-192 and AF-191), after which both cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were overwritten. The quick access recorders had a formatting error and were not useable according to the airline.
Incident: Air France A332 over Atlantic on Nov 30th 2009, Mayday call due to severe turbulence