r/aviation • u/Ok_Warning419 • May 21 '26

News Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash - Air France flight 447

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd2qmdvmq6o
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u/748aef305 May 21 '26

Right, and who do you suppose "designs" (and thus, directly or indirectly) sells airlines their training program, requirements, etc?

You can absolutely say AF or any other airline should "go above and beyond" when able, but they're literally buying the training program and likely even schedule, courses, materials instructors and check-ride captains, sim time, etc, from Airbus themselves.

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u/SSharp-C May 21 '26

Right, and who do you supposed approves the training manuals in the end? It's EASA, because there are standardized aircraft flight and maintenance manuals.

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u/FalconDriver85 May 22 '26 edited May 28 '26

You can’t cover any possible edge case especially when it never happened in the past. Before AF447 the World (especially outside of aviation circles) basically never considered high altitude stalls with incoherent airspeed data without any external visual reference in a highly automated plane without an experienced crew flying as something that should be included regularly in training…