Air France 'not convinced' speed probes caused crash

Air France 'not convinced' speed probes caused crash

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Air France's managing director said Thursday he was "not convinced" that faulty speed monitors caused an Airbus jet to crash into the Atlantic, but said the airline would replace them anyway.

Asked by reporters why Air France had not been more forthcoming about concerns over Airbus A330's pitot probes, Pierre-Henri Gourgeon retorted: "Because I'm not convinced the probes were the cause of the accident."

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More and more experts are saying what we said last week - the pitot probes wouldn`t cause the break up of an aircraft ; something else did; the evidence is poiting at a gradual failure and breakup , and is not directly attributed to the pitot probe:

the A330 with the window heater failure recently is not related at all - a 767 had exactly the same fault a few weeks back (same manufacturer of the heater as well)

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I still think it was that solar flare slam on the magnetosphere that occurred 15 minutes prior...