Originally Posted by
Lyman
They are an arm of the FRENCH government, which has an enormous stake in the outcome.
What stake would that be? The A330 is already a success in financial terms and the pan-European Airbus consortium is going toe-to-toe with Boeing in the global airliner market. How would the outcome of this investigation change that?
I ask again, are you insinuating the BEA's complicity in a cover-up?
There are economic and political repercussions.
No more or less than any other commercial aviation disaster.
BEA may not judge.
They have no legal say - however as with every other accident investigation bureau they are required to make a judgement call on the technical and human factors surrounding the accident.
Originally Posted by
vapilot2004
Both words describe an alteration, or better, interpretation if you will, of the raw numbers. Perhaps one has a negative connotation that should be avoided?
It's not an alteration of the numbers (as they came out of the DFDR), it is simply a graphical rendering*.
* - Which in turn allows them to present the same amount of data that would take thousands of pages rendered numerically into less than ten pages graphically.