And for those thinking of it as an exercise in blaming/exonerating the crew, AF or Airbus - the report makes it clear that mistakes were made by all three of those entities, plus others. In short, none of them come up smelling of roses, and nor does the industry as a whole.
Yes none of them .. included the BEA but they forget to put their mistakes in the report
The phenomenon of ice crystals was officially ignored (was not taken into
account in the regulatory definitions)
Before the accident, the BEA estimated that the number of precursor events had not interest in flight safety.
After the accident, the BEA has undertaken an analysis of the events which led to the issue in emergency (December 2009) a safety recommendation to the certification standards
Pitot probes are changed.
With this recommendation, the BEA has admitted, without saying, that he had erred in its assessment of the facts.
The blockage of the Pitot probes has multiple system failures that seriously affect the control of the aircraft.
This is a serious incident under the European Directive 94/56/EC.
BEA had an obligation to investigate and possibly make recommendations.