BEA website seems to be struggling, but links direct to the pdf documents are still working (although takes a couple of tries for me):
The "note":
English:
http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/vol....let2011.en.pdf
French:
http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/vol....let2011.fr.pdf
The recommendations (actually more a note about them):
English:
http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/vol....let2011.en.pdf
French:
http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/vol.af.447/reco29juillet2011.fr.pdf
Looking at these, I think (hope) they are more press summaries / extracts released in advance of the complete interim report.
A few things do grab attention:
- Recommendation for video recording of cockpit displays - perhaps implying there is still significant uncertainty about what the pilots actually saw ?
- No training (not just "not a lot" - none!!!) for manual flight or UAS at altitude (let alone alt or direct law)
- No CRM training for capt. off duty [edit: intended meaning no CRM training for the situation of capt. off duty, not that capt. was not trained - too few words used first time!]
- no UAS procedure called, and no mention of stall despite continuous warning for almost a minute at one point
And what
might turn out to be a biggie (or two):
- Control surfaces moved according to pilot inputs (BUT: only pitch axis mentioned, what happened in roll ?)
- Plane moved according to contol inputs "Until the airplane was outside its flight envelope". Why qualify with that ? Maybe there is a nasty deep stall behaviour in there ?
Waiting for the real report now...