Flight Air France 447: Collective Negligence & Incompetence?

Extracts from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10577643 :

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Air France voiced its concerns to Airbus months ago about the reliability in icy conditions of the model of speed sensors, or "Pitot tubes", fitted to the A330-200 which crashed 400 miles north-east of Brazil.

The French national airline, after reassurances from Airbus, started in April an unhurried programme to replace the tubes with an improved version.

Air France, under pressure from its own pilots, yesterday ordered that at least two of the three Pitot tubes on all its 34 remaining A330 and A340 aircraft should be upgraded immediately.

On Monday, one of the smaller Air France pilots' unions told its members to refuse to take the controls of any Airbus A330 or A340 which had not had its speed sensors changed.

If false speed readings are proven to be the cause of the Atlantic crash, both Air France and Airbus will have awkward questions to answer.

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It took 228 lives for one of the largest Airlines in the world to "hurry up" the replacement of a part that the manufacturer recommended should be replaced?  Then the manufacturer reassures Air France so that the Airline may embark on an "unhurried programme" to replace these Pitot Tubes.  Well all this from the nation that ordered the French Secret Service (DGSE) to bomb Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior on the sovereign soil of a peaceful 3rd nation, New Zealand.  A prime example of State sponsored terrorism (http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/the-bombing-of-the-rainbow-war). 

We should rightfully be very sceptical about the integrity and credibility of an investigation where both Air France and Airbus Industrie are domiciled in France.  Although there are numerous conspiracy theories that seem to be emerging about "how", this seems to be a classic case of incompetence, bureaucracy and disregard which will eventually conclude in an investigation that would reek of deception.