Air France Flight Recorders Point At Crew Error

According to an Airbus telex sent to all airlines using their A330, the flight recorders on Air France flight 447 confirm that their aeroplane didn’t suffer any failure and they shouldn’t take any precautionary measure:

…at this stage of preliminary analysis of the Flight Data Recorder, Airbus has no immediate recommendation to to its operators. Updates will be provided as soon as significant items that Airbus will be available or will be authorised to issue more information in accordance with the investigation.

According to Le Figaro, the flight data recorder points to an error by the crew as the origin of the accident that killed 228 people aboard the Airbus A330. The data will be disclosed soon by the agency investigating the accident. Le Figaro’s sources say that they still don’t have data from the Cockpit Voice Recorder, which will probably reveal more about the actual source of the accident. [Le Figaro]


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