Air France défend ses pilotes (from Le Nouvel Observateur)
Air France, a répondu à ces résultats dans un communiqué en défendant le "professionnalisme" des pilotes, mettant en cause de leur côté la fiabilité de l'alarme de décrochage de l'avion, dont "les multiples activations et arrêts" ont "fortement contribué à la difficulté pour l'équipage d'analyser la situation".
Air France responded to these results in a press release defending the "professionalism" of the pilots,for its part blaming the reliability of the stall warning with "multiple stops and starts" which strongly contributed to the difficulties the flight team had in analysing the situation.
Personally, although AF is not impartial I think this point is very important. I think the pilots disbelieved the stall warning from the start. In fact I think the very first stall warning, which came only a few seconds after AP disconnect, was a bogus warning caused by UAS.