6 years of hard work changing everything in the airline operations and the company safety culture, and here we are wondering why we're facing two near disasters in a couple of week.
I don't want to throw stones in this glass house that all of us pilots live in. Mistakes happen, and then most important point is that we all learn from it. Yet I can't help but notice that the number of incidents and accidents of AF is becoming a bit scary.
Could it perhaps be that the problems with AF's safety culture are a lot older than 6 years?
Air France accidents and incidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Could it also be that perhaps the real problem is not really the safety culture, but rather an extremely arrogant superiority complex culture, also known as French chauvinism? An inbred culture that is not open for change? A culture that prevents fresh (foreign!? English?!) ideas and lessons to take root? A culture that insists of doing everything "the French way" by actively swimming against the stream of common sense, from speaking French to ATC, to having checklists and call outs in French and making an LP6 in French more important than an LP6 in English?
Could that perhaps be the real problem here? A problem that has been discussed here on PPRuNe for many many years, and a problem that any non-French pilot can easily identify after just a few flights to France?