@FlyinHeavy:
The speedbrakes are only partially deployed, as the PNF immediately selects them back in.
The PF may have suspected overspeed, but the point is that the suspicion was incorrect. There was never an overspeed warning because the aircraft was never in an overspeed state.
@Lyman:
The roll problem is an artifact of stall, nothing more. The indicated spoiler positions after the attempt to deploy correlate precisely with the sidestick roll inputs made by the PF, and there was no obvious sign of damage to the spoilers on the wreckage found. Is it that hard to accept that - besides the pitot tubes - the aircraft behaved normally? The report does not damn the crew, and outside of scuttlebutt neither does anyone else. Why this quixotic crusade to prove a mechanical failure?
Re: CVR - while the BEA sought to spare unnecessary detail, that book published earlier this year claimed to have more of the unexpurgated content - in fact I'm pretty sure it used all of it, while leaving some of the more relevant stuff out. I'd be very surprised if there is any more useful information that we don't already know about.
Last edited by DozyWannabe; 15th Jul 2012 at 23:02.