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SNPL Roissy, May 15, 2013
France ALPA
Press release
Survey AF447: the European Agency
seriously defective air safety
The testimony of the Director of EASA shows the total absence
independence of the regulatory agency vis-à-vis manufacturers.
The SNPL France ALPA questioned since the beginning of the judicial inquiry into the role played by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in this painful case. During many months of August 2010 to April 2013, the Executive Director of the agency clung to its European immunity to avoid testifying. At the request of its board of directors and by the obstinacy of the instruction judge Zimmermann, he finally explained to justice. The SNPL France ALPA civil party had access to the evidence.
We discover that EASA has seriously failed in its duty of continuing airworthiness of aircraft considering only the information provided by the manufacturers, but never verify or challenge.
It is in this way that the incidents prior to the crash of the AF447 and precursors thereof, caused by icing of pitot probes, were underestimated by the manufacturer. They have been ignored, but that at no time the Agency considers it appropriate to investigate further, as this is where the heart of its mission.
This seems incomprehensible inversion prerogatives reduce EASA a simple transmission belt very bad quality.
The SNPL France ALPA said that in addition to finding a damning report of the Court of Auditors of the European Union in late 2012 involving the deplorable management of conflicts of interest within the EASA.
It is clear that the testimony of the director of EASA reinforces the doubts and suspicions which had already accumulated on the European Agency.
Put into perspective with the development of new FTL, in which the upper hand of airlines is well established, this situation is very worrying about the institutional management of aviation safety in Europe.
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