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Flight: Nailing the Concorde “criminals”

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We could not agree more with David Learmount;  this court case is ridiculous and a waste of time and money.

Today in Pontoise, north of Paris, the French judiciary began to examine who, if anyone, was criminally guilty of causing the Air France Concorde crash.

There is no obligation under French law to launch a criminal prosecution following an aviation accident. An accident could be presumed to be just that: an unintended, unforseen occurrence.

This compulsion to prosecute following aviation accidents in France seems to be embedded in the way the establishment works in the country, but it’s about time somebody in authority questioned the procedure. The trouble is that it seems to be considered sacrilege to criticise or interfere with the French judicial system. The judiciary’s independence is sacred to the extent that they can write their own rules. So that’s what they do.

G2 Solutions @ February 7, 2010

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