However one farmer has allowed protesters to set up camp on his land, where watchtowers and fences were being built on Monday to create a “village of Gauls”, a reference to the popular Asterix comic books. The government is determined to stop the installation of a ZAD ( Zone à défendre) – a type of permanent protest camp. On Monday there were further clashes as protesters tried to set up a protest camp at the site, coming up against the huge police presence – around 1,000 officers – still in the area. “We’ve lost our speeds,” one co-pilot is heard saying in the flight recordings, before other indicators mistakenly show a loss of altitude, and a series of alarm messages appear on the cockpit screens.Īctivists constrict a ‘village of the Gauls’ protest camp at Sainte-Soline. Shortly after the automatic pilot functions stopped working, just as the Pitot tubes froze over, leaving the pilots with no clear speed readings. To avoid the worst of the storm they veered off route to the left and slowed their speed, having warned the crew of coming turbulence. READ ALSO: Air France suspends two pilots who came to blows in mid-air The court will hear testimony from dozens of aviation experts and pilots, along with second-by-second details of the final minutes in the cockpit before the plane went into free-fall.Īs it approached the Equator en route for Paris, the plane entered a so-called “intertropical convergence zone” that often produces volatile storms with heavy precipitation.Īround this time the captain, 58, handed over to his 32-year-old senior co-pilot and went to bed, with the second co-pilot sharing the controls. They each face a maximum fine of 225,000 euros ($220,000). Airbus, maker of the A330 jet that had been put into service just four years before the accident, declined to comment ahead of the trial but has also denied any criminal negligence.
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