Confirmed now by the BEA:http://www.bea.aero/...aout2011.fr.php Please remember, it's mandatory (legal obligation) for the BEA to publish immediately any recommendation that could help to avoid another crash. Why they decided to wait here, is still unanswered. I think it can't be "premature" to warn all Airbus crews that the stall warning stops working in some circumstances and can be triggered again when the pilot reduces the angle of attack.

Smells fishy! Best to blame the pilots, second best to blame airline procedures, worst and most costly is to blame aircraft design, so "they" will try to direct the report in that direction, if at all possible. Cheers, - jahman.

'Best' and 'worst' in what way? Mind talking less cryptically?

The English version of the 3rd Interim Report has now been publishd http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.af.447/flight.af.447.php

Funny how the latest BEA report shut us couch accident investigators all up! Cheers, - jahman.

Funny how the latest BEA report shut us couch accident investigators all up! Cheers, - jahman.

Maybe it was the conclusions?

Maybe it was the conclusions?

No more wiggle room to argue? Cheers, - jahman.

I think there is still plenty to debate, not sure about you but I am still studying the report in detail. What worries me is the pilot in the right seat (PF) took control back off the pilot in the left seat without announcing I have control. I think the lawyers will have a field day over that.

Surely of more importance are the conclusions that: there was an inconsistency between the speeds measured, likely following the blockage of the Pitot probes in an ice crystal environment, although having identified and called out the loss of the speed indications, neither of the two copilots called the procedure “Unreliable IAS”, the approach to stall was characterised by the triggering of the warning then the appearance of buffet, neither of the pilots made any reference to the stall warning, the stall warning was triggered continuously for 54 seconds, a short time after the triggering of the stall warning, the PF selected TO/GA thrust and made a nose-up input,