Originally Posted by
Lyman
Except when it becomes necessary to support a manufacturer with a Press Release, and in doing so, laying Blame on crew by default. That Press release was a complete embarrassment, and an abdication of the very charge you quote.
Lyman, you may be in need of a "chill pill" again. Not only was there nothing in the "note" released prior to the 3rd interim report (which is presumably what you are referring to) that was in support of the manufacturer, either explicitly or implicitly. All it said was that there appeared to be no technical or mechanical failure of the aircraft before the departure from controlled flight over and above the pitot blockage/UAS issue we already knew about.
Firstly, it's a logical fallacy to say that making a statement of that nature "lay[s] blame on crew by default" - that is simply not true, and an example of what many on here will recognise as a "false dichotomy" - a neophyte debating tactic.
Secondly, the press release did not directly lay any responsibility on the crew (nor was it a "cynical ploy" to get the public to do so). All it did was state the facts of the matter, among which was the indisputable fact that the crew appeared to mishandle the aircraft following a UAS incident, leading to a stall and loss of control. It was but one factor in the holes in the cheese/chain/graph of events that led to the accident. That the press may have oversimplified what was actually said in order to provide a more sensational story (and thus sell more papers) cannot be laid at the door of the BEA. Remember that the press have skin in the "face-saving" game here, having popularised the "baby pilot crashes aircraft" meme a couple of years back when the facts were very thin on the ground - to go back on that would make them look very foolish.
In part, it was this constant attempt to re-tread things that you have already brought up several times under several aliases that got the R&N thread closed down and transferred to Tech Log. Do you want the mods to shut down this discussion too?