"I see absolutely no useful purpose served in bringing a criminal prosecution a decade later on a set of facts that suggests nothing more than an aviation tragedy that has multiple mistakes and human errors, like so many others," said Kenneth P. Quinn, the Flight Safety Foundation's general counsel.
Ditto.
Well this would be part of French Law that I could disagree with then:
tries to pin down who should be held criminally responsible for the crash,
...right after the French themselves say:
the French Accident Investigation Agency deemed the accident unpredictable.
Doesn't criminal require something of an intent?
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