1. Needless reveal by Prosecutor (not an aviation professional or regulator) of screams heard on CVR within 48 hours even as relatives are still in deep shock.
2. How could the Prosecutor possibly know of intent or voluntary action at this early stage?
3. What investigative purpose or public purpose is served by revealing information from the CVR before a careful audio analysis, properly synced to flight data is complete? This is not an overnight process.
4. Conversely, strong statements by a person in a position of supervision over an investigation may 'set' minds and hinder the careful unearthing of alternative explanations and chain of events.
5. In any case, I understand that air accident investigations in France have only recently been assigned to regional prosecutors a few months ago as a result of administrative and legal changes.
Hi from a French newbie (not pilot either) having listend to the radio all day long.
1. I think exactly the opposite. The circumstances (captain trying to enter during several minutes) make people think passengers
were aware of a serious problem ; the prosecutor said they shouted in the last moments (duration not mentionned). I understand this as a (rather desperate but) generous attempt to bring some peace to relatives.
2. The prosecutor did
not mention a voluntary action. What he said was much more precise and technical : he said that setting the FMS cannot be anything but voluntary. Since he might even have ignored himself what is a FMS, it's quite obvious he got this info from professionnals involved in the inquiry.
3. Well, the "audio events" reported seem to prove they have listened to the CVR, but I'd be open to hear your definition of "carefully".
4. (with a link to 2.) Which strong statements please ? I want to emphasize, for example, that he did
not say the word suicide at any moment.
He did say "terrorism", not to exclude it, but just to say that there is, at the moment, no evidence that this person might have had such an intention.
5.
Regional prosecutor might suggest that this guy could have personal methods, etc ; that's quite wrong, he is just a member of the national justice department.