Originally Posted by
Clandestino
Wrong!
People who keep maligning FBW & FADEC when discussing the Habsheim disaster with blatant disregard to facts, don't have anything to do with Michael Asseline's defense and definitively have no his support.
Read more closely sir. I wasn't referring to those who in modern times malign FBW and FADEC as a result of Habsheim. I was referring simply and purely to the idea (contemporary to the late 1980s) advanced by Asseline's defence team that the BEA were obliged to defend Airbus due to the involvement of the French state apparatus. A position which is easily disproved by the facts on the ground.
That some of the posters on here have not let this go and continue in the hope of humiliating Airbus in the manner that Asseline (and later, Norbert Jacquet) were brought down is not merely a matter of conjecture - it is a matter of fact.