French Union Halts Help Into Inquiry in Jet Crash

August 4, 2011

Air France’s largest pilots’ union suspended cooperation on Wednesday with investigators seeking to identify the causes of a fatal 2009 crash of a Rio de Janeiro-to-Paris flight, in protest of what it said was a decision by investigators to play down the role of the plane’s stall-warning system in an interim report last week.

The move followed reports in the French news media suggesting that text and recommendations related to the stall-alarm system of the Airbus A330-200 jet were part of the investigators’ working draft and had circulated within the Bureau of Investigations and Analyses but those references did not appear in the 117-page report released Friday.

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