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Rio-Paris crash: Air France and Airbus under threat of trial

2021-01-27T10:43:43.007Z


The company and the manufacturer had benefited from a dismissal in the fall of 2019. The general prosecutor's office takes the opposite view and requires their r


Eleven years after the crash of flight AF447 between Rio and Paris, the families of the 228 victims are regaining hope.

According to our information, the Paris public prosecutor's office requires the referral of Air France and Airbus to the criminal court.

The hearing before the Court of Appeal, which will validate or not the holding of a trial, is to be held on March 4.

The general prosecutor's office thus takes the total opposite view of the investigating judges, who had decided to dismiss the company and the manufacturer in the fall of 2019, overwhelming the pilots alone.

He also goes further than the prosecution, which then decided in favor of a trial for the company alone.

“All of the technical analyzes, corroborated by hearings, highlight the inadequacy of training and information provided by the Air France company to its crews”, considers the general prosecutor for Air France, detailing “the faulty breaches " the company.

In particular, the failure to take into account the level of seriousness of the multiple incidents of loss of speed indication which had followed on fifteen other flights between May 2008 and May 2009.

"The faults linked to the icing of the probes were known"

As for Airbus, the general prosecutor's office considers that the manufacturer has underestimated "the dangerousness of anemometric incidents resulting from the icing of the probes".

During the investigation, various expertises agreed to consider that the ice crystal blocking of the Pitot speed probes which equipped the Airbus A330 had led to the loss of speed and altitude data, disorienting the pilots.

"The icing-related failures (

of these probes

) were known at the date of the accident," said the general prosecutor's office.

However, the Airbus company did not "put the supervisory authority in a position to have a corrective action taken", nor asked the operator to change the probes, "as it should have done".

Flight AF447 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009. Air France and Airbus were indicted for manslaughter in 2011.

Source: leparis

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