Originally Posted by
jcjeant
It is therefore by an illegal act that begins the investigation
Or a mistake.
I am not surprised, therefore, of the controversy that followed and which is still not closed for some
A lot of that "controversy" was manufactured by a private Swiss investigator who was paid to come to the conclusions he came to.
The BEA were so horrified by the accusations levelled at them that they (and the local gendarmerie) wouldn't touch the recorders from the subsequent Air Inter crash until the NTSB team that they had brought over were able to confirm that no tampering with the CVR and DFDR had occurred. The NTSB team were genuinely worried that the data would be lost due to remaining in the burning wreckage for so long.