As I have offered, this is a performance accident.
I think we will all agree ..
And on the other hand .. we have the chief pilot of Air France says:
" There was pilots in the cockpit with a maximum skill "
This is indicative of the culture of Air France to not admit that this maximum of "Air France" skill is not enough to cope with such an event of AF447
When we examine the other cases where Air France is involved .. may have thought that those who are out except .. have done with a lot of luck and not by their maximum skill (no respect for memory items or alarms .. etc. ..)