Anyone have an idea what was the issue with the data recorders ? Given the crash circumstances it would seems that they should have been recovered in a fairly decent shape and these must be state of the art. I'm a little puzzled by this.
As for the crash being down to quality control in assembly... wow ! That would quite unbelievable given the context. I just can't imagine Airbus having such a huge issue in QA - muss be more to the story.