Peter Goelz, a former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board, said that advisory and the Air France memo about replacing flight-speed instruments "certainly raises questions about whether the Pitot tubes, which are critical to the pilot's understanding of what's going on, were operating effectively."
Mwaka 1996 kulipozuka mvutano kati ya serikali na wamiliki wa mabasi juu ya kufunga vidhibiti mwendo, wamiliki wa mabasi walipendekeza badala ya kufunga vidhibiti mwendo, kifungwe chombo kinachoonesha mwendokasi wa safari nzima ya basi hizo(technograph) lakini serikali kwa ubabe ilikataa ushauri huo na kulazimisha ule wake.