Originally Posted by
roulishollandais
That situation started with the Habsheim case : the lawiers, judges, experts, did never spoke about the definition of automation, responsibility of the engineers who hide important information to the Captain of the flight. They just do not know what it is !
This isn't about Habsheim - which is a 24-year-old case!
The engineers "hid" nothing from the Captain - he simply didn't appreciate the consequences of the actions he performed when trying to rescue a botched approach rather than go round and try again.
As I said before - by trying to make it about pilots vs. automation his lawyers actually made things more difficult for him in terms of the criminal proceedings - the report basically threw the book at Air France for poor procedure and implied that the mistakes made by the captain were understandable, but by making a media circus out of it his legal team made him more of a target.
Sadly what it's also done is propagate a lot of misunderstanding about the case - and some of those misunderstandings are still repeated by the media today.