“Without a driver, in the middle of the darkness, like a blind and deaf beast to be freed in death, rolled, rolled (….)“. Thus Zola concludes The Human Beast. That was in 1890. The Rio-Paris air disaster, the worst in the history of French aviation, took place on 1.eh June 2009 at 2 h 10 min 5 sec universal time. AF447, with 228 passengers and crew on board, crashed and sank into the ocean at a depth of 4,000 meters. We are talking about the simultaneous cooling of three Pitot probes, which measure air speed. An unprecedented situation for these pilots, which led to the aircraft stalling and sinking, four minutes and twenty-three seconds after the autopilot was disengaged.
More than thirteen years after the events, the question is whether Air France and Airbus are criminally liable, respectively “withheld adequate training (and) personnel information that was critical“and have…
Source: Le Figaro
