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Article: French Is An Approved Language.
- Article from:
- Air Safety Week
- Article date:
- March 21, 2005
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Our observation that the French accident investigation bureau, the Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Ananalyis (BEA), posted on its Web site only a French language report of its investigation into the June 2003 crash of a Canadair regional jet near Brest prompted a variety of criticism (see ASW, Jan. 24). Among the more interesting observations, that the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) limits itself to English, ignoring America's Hispanic and Chinese minorities.
According to the BEA, "It is true that it was published in French, but an English version is under way."
"More and more, important reports published by the BEA are translated into ...