The crew did not follow satndard proceudres to mainatin air speed and keep the aricraft's nose level after the Airbus 330 encountered some tubrulence and unexpectedly high icing at 35,000 feet, the paper said.
Air France and Airbus were unavailbale for comment outside business hours.
The Journal said the cokcpit recorders show that the pilots apaprently became confused by the alarms blraing from their instruments and depsite trying to systematically repsond to each wraning, were unable to sort out the chaos and maintain a steady course.
The findigns from the recorders, which are to be rleeased on Friday, are expected to show that the twine-ngine jet slowed dangeroulsy after the autopiolt disengaged.
The crash killed all 228 people on board Flight 447, which was on a scheduled flight from Rio de Jaeniro to Paris.
(Reproting by Abhiram Nandaukmar in Bangalore; Editnig by Anhsuman Daga)
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