Air France Flight 447

Speculative Forensics.
We cannot draw conclusions.

We can only speculate.

The black boxes have not been found.

The investigation is inconclusive–except that there were probably multiple concurrent or sequential causes. We can ask the following questions:

Was it the pitot tubes? Was it the turbulence? Was it the weather? Was it pilot error? Was it fly by wire/computer error?

There are still lessons unlearned from AFF 447.

For the BEA, it is another ongoing report hanging like a sword of Damocles over Airbus, Air France and possibly the future of inter-continental aviation.

We await the promised mid-December report.

For the families, waiting for answers since 1 June 2009, the suffering goes on.

128 page BEA report on af447.pdf