The Class of '65

The conspiracy theorists will love this. It sure was a good year.

Go to the alumni database of Ecole Polytechnique and there you find four special names among the graduates of Class 1965:

1. Noël Forgeard (formerly Airbus, stepped down due internal stock trading scandal)
2. Claude Lelaie, currently chief of flight test at Airbus
3. Paul-Louis Arslanian, chief of BEA (AF447 accident investigator)
4. Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, Current Air France CEO, after having been at the head of DGCA (the regulatory body)

In other news --

• BA and Unions break up
• Lawyers threaten to ground Airbus longhaul fleet - The AA DC10 nightmare all over again?
• Strange IPs
• 787 program costs to rise sharply

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