Originally Posted by
jcjeant
I think .. it will be a issue ... for those concerned
It's a big gap between common sens and laws
To verify in some years
OK, let's get this straight. The BEA report is not a legal document, and the accident investigation is completely outside of the legal process. EADS (Airbus) are in possession of the simulator which can fulfil the request - no other entity has tools which are anything like as accurate. The simulation would be run with BEA people present in order to verify the accuracy of the inputs to the simulation, as well as to study the simulated responses. There is nothing untoward about this, and I'm fairly certain this process is pretty much identical in the US with Boeing. The manufacturers have to be the ones to run the simulation because they are the only entities in possession of simulation tools with the required accuracy.
If the SNPL legal team want to argue the point, then they'll have to take it up during the court case(s) when the BEA report is entered into evidence - but they'd have to have a very strong case of presumed malfeasance first. Of course, they could also send their own guys up to the EADS labs to verify the simulation for themselves...