Rio layover
How long were the crew in Rio, 24hr slip or more?
According to the final BEA report, published July 2012, « L’enquête n’a pas permis d’établir avec exactitude l’activité des membres d’équipage de conduite pendant l’escale à Rio de Janeiro où l’équipage était arrivé trois jours plus tôt. Il n’a pas été possible d’obtenir des données relatives à leurs sommeils pendant cette escale ».
Translated into the lesser Shakespearian language, this would amount to a 72h layover. Citing respect “for the crew’s privacy”, the BEA has chosen not to detail those three days, merely commenting that “It was not possible to obtain data relative to their sleeping patterns during this layover”. This choice raised a number of questions when the BEA released their report in July 2012.
As stated previously, under the French system, the investigation into AF 447 is a two-pronged affair. The BEA, the French equivalent of the NTSB, issued its technical report on the causes of the crash –not apportioning blame etc…-. In parallel, the French police, working under the supervision of three judges, completed its own criminal enquiry, which will serve as the basis for any legal decisions in this case.
It is the later enquiry that the article in magazine “Le Point” is referring to. While the BEA claims that it did not want to “infringe on the personal lives” of the flight crew, the French police appears to have been considerably less shy in that regard and, working with / through their Brazilian counterparts, they appear to have collected testimony from a variety of witnesses. While translation issues have hampered the swift transmission of the full judiciary investigation to the victims’ lawyers, it is most likely that the contents of this report will be “leaked” in preparation for the trial.
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Last edited by Agnostique75; 18th Mar 2013 at 12:18.
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