Originally Posted by
roulishollandais
There was a time where the victims/families did not appeal the Criminal after an airliner crash, only Civil action. It really started with Habsheim and the magic aircraft who "cannot stall".
The aircraft at Habsheim never did stall - it's the reason almost all the occupants walked away. The main reason it crashed was because the pilot in command (described on one occasion as the most arrogant man the interviewee had ever met) thought he was good enough to disable the A/THR safety features and fudge a flypast rather than swallow his pride and attempt another approach.
His legal team was responsible for almost all the inaccurate statements made about the design to this day. The irony is that the BEA report considered Air France's actions more responsible for the accident than those of the Captain, but you wouldn't know that because of all the rubbish talked over the years.