Air France Crash
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/08/04/revelations-surrounding-air-france-crash-inquiry-sparks-accusations-of-manipulation/
The French government is investigating the Air France crash. The French Government is part owner of Airbus. If Airbus is to blame for 228 people dying that could be big problems for France. They might have to explain all the Airbus outsourcing that has taken place to save money. How that has contributed to crappy pitot tubes. Tails that keep falling off Airbus planes. And a Faulty stall warning system.
So the French government is quick to blame the dead pilots for the crash. Dead pilots have a hard time defending themselves. It is real easy to point to them and hope everyone moves on.
Somehow the pilots who are sitting in a dark cockpit, over the Atlantic Ocean, in the middle of the night, flying through a raging storm. Pilots who have no point of reference out the windows. The plane is giving them faulty readings as to how fast they are flying. Warnings are going off that may or may not be accurate about a stall. It is clearly their fault the plane was doomed.
Sounds convenient BUT nobody in France is buying it. The pilots union is pissed. The relatives of the victims are pissed.
The French have a lot more explaining to do.
Less than a week after France's official Bureau of Investigations and Analyses (BEA) issued a preliminary finding stating insufficiently trained pilots of the doomed Airbus A330 failed to address a resolvable stall of the craft, France's leading pilots' union and families of victims are attacking the organization and its study as being manipulated by French business interests. The SNPL union said it was suspending its participation in the BEA's inquiry after French media revelations Wednesday that the agency made last-minute deletions of a section in the study raising questions about the plane's stall warning system—concerns that could have considerable consequences aviation giant Airbus.
The French government is investigating the Air France crash. The French Government is part owner of Airbus. If Airbus is to blame for 228 people dying that could be big problems for France. They might have to explain all the Airbus outsourcing that has taken place to save money. How that has contributed to crappy pitot tubes. Tails that keep falling off Airbus planes. And a Faulty stall warning system.
So the French government is quick to blame the dead pilots for the crash. Dead pilots have a hard time defending themselves. It is real easy to point to them and hope everyone moves on.
Somehow the pilots who are sitting in a dark cockpit, over the Atlantic Ocean, in the middle of the night, flying through a raging storm. Pilots who have no point of reference out the windows. The plane is giving them faulty readings as to how fast they are flying. Warnings are going off that may or may not be accurate about a stall. It is clearly their fault the plane was doomed.
Sounds convenient BUT nobody in France is buying it. The pilots union is pissed. The relatives of the victims are pissed.
The French have a lot more explaining to do.
Less than a week after France's official Bureau of Investigations and Analyses (BEA) issued a preliminary finding stating insufficiently trained pilots of the doomed Airbus A330 failed to address a resolvable stall of the craft, France's leading pilots' union and families of victims are attacking the organization and its study as being manipulated by French business interests. The SNPL union said it was suspending its participation in the BEA's inquiry after French media revelations Wednesday that the agency made last-minute deletions of a section in the study raising questions about the plane's stall warning system—concerns that could have considerable consequences aviation giant Airbus.
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August 04, 2011
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