Thursday, March 17, 2011

Airbus accused by the crash of Flight Rio de Janeiro-Paris on Air France in 2009

The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has been charged with manslaughter today by Sylvie Zimmerman judge investigating the crash of Air France in June 2009 that crashed while en route Rio de Janeiro-Paris which killed 228 people. The airline, which has been convened on Friday in connection with the investigations, could also be indicted.

In a statement, the president of Airbus, Tom Enders, has confirmed the processing of your company as a manufacturer of A330 suffered the accident. Enders was unhappy and stressed "the absence of facts" in his view support the accusation. Airbus maintains that the purpose of the hearing would be to find the cause of the accident and ensure that it can never happen again, "he said.

The indictment of Airbus is the first in this case, subject to the eventual discovery of the black box device that crashed off the coast of Brazil. The head of the European aircraft manufacturer said that "nevertheless, we will continue to cooperate with investigations and in the next stage of finding the black boxes of the device.

The March 20 quarter start search operation of the Airbus A330 in a hitherto unexplored area of \u200b\u200b10,000 km2, it was announced weeks ago the Research and Analysis Bureau French (BEA). This organization believes that one of the factors of the accident could have been a malfunction in the sensors (speed sensor) Pitot French manufacturer Thales, but estimated that only have the definitive explanation of the tragedy when they found the plane's black boxes.

Experts have noted that Air France's reaction to the first alerts about the reliability of these probes was "too late and ineffective." In 2009, relatives of the victims, which include 72 French and 59 Brazilian-filed a lawsuit in French courts to investigate the accident. So far, only 3% of the aircraft and some 50 bodies have been recovered from the seabed.

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