A330 Accident: Pitot Tubes Not to Blame?
Louis Gallois would not fuel speculation about what caused the Air France A330 to crash into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, but he did say that the replacem

Louis Gallois would not fuel speculation about what caused the Air France A330 to crash into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, but he did say that the replacement of pitot tubes had been instigated due to problems in takeoff and landing, not in cruise. This contradicts more than a week of speculation that a pitot tube failure may have been a major contributory factor to the accident.

“It is essential to know what happened,” he said. “Airbus is cooperating fully with the BEA [France’s Bureau d’Enquete Accidents accident investigation agency]. I hope we find the Black Box [flight recorders] and I hope sincerely that we will find the root cause. It takes the convergence of different causes to create such an accident, [so] it’s much too early to look at causes.

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