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Clueless in Paris.

Publication: Aviation Safety
Publication Date: 01-AUG-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Clueless in Paris.(EDITOR'S LOG)(investigation of Air France Flight 447 accident)

Article Excerpt
France's equivalent to the NTSB--the Bureau d Enquetes et d'Analyses, or BEA--on July 2 released its interim report on the loss of Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330 that crashed into the equatorial Atlantic Ocean early on the morning of June 1. To geeks like me who pore over these things, the interim report is extremely valuable in assembling and organizing in one place many--but not all--of the known facts about this tragedy. It is not, however, a final report and does not state a probable cause for the accident. Its initial findings and some of its details, however, are important. Just as important? The interim report highlights how clueless officials are in understanding what went wrong and how it might be prevented in the future.

Primary evidence thus...

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