Paris court clears aviation giants over disaster that killed 228 people flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris
and recover the black box flight data and voice recorders. Only then could France’s air investigation agency begin piecing together what had caused the crash.
France’s air investigations authority, the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses , said the crew had responded incorrectly to the icing problem but also had not had the training needed to fly manually at high altitude after the autopilot dropped out. It also highlighted inconsistent signals from a display called the flight director, which has since been redesigned to switch itself off in such events to avoid confusion.
Air France defended its pilots in a statement released at the same time as the report was made public, saying the attitude alert system had malfunctioned.
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