We don’t know anything about any possible motives. It’s not because a Fr prosecutor did hint the press with his own narrow vision of human kind that we have to tag any suspected rogue pilot as being a psychotic.
In the 70’s, everyone confronted with a similar scenario would have thought at some mafia gangster and a truck load of money in the cargo bay. 😉
What is the trade rate of Mangos lately ?

Will we see a grounding of the An32 fleet? The refit has just been completed in a difficult context. Is there any material in this crash to take some pre-emptive measures?

The aircraft was last detected on radar 151 nautical miles east of Chennai, making a left turn with a rapid loss of height from 23,000 ft, according to a note provided by the air force to the Defence Ministry.

There were 21 military personnel on board including six crew.

Source:
Reuters.com

Cabin integrity was breached. See how badly damaged is the rear sector. Might not have been a pretty sight inside.

Also, the tempo of reported Manpad attack has increased drastically. Where are those coming from?

Alleged video (I did not take the time to review it):

It looks like the USAF may be buying this: http://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-may-buy-this-cheap-jet-2016-7?yptr=yahoo?r=UK&IR=T

That would be really good. Especially if what is profiling in the horizon (a multi-user with differential usage) becomes true. The aircraft will offer a variety of mission each tuned and refined by the user (see KinetiQ for example).

Not minimizing Sanem’s vision, a manned Scorpion will be more agile overall in deployment than a UCAV, allowing for a quick, scaled repositioning when and where it matters. With minimal support and low cost, it won’t be a political decision but one at the level of theater commender.
This is what is needed in complement to a large fleet of drone.

One example is central America. There is no way for example to see large usage of drones in those countries (openly acknowledged) when the needs will surface soon (narco-war will be an asymmetric battlefield used by a conventional opponent to fix a significant portion of assets).

With manned aircraft like the Scorpion, the acceptance by the public will ease operational tempo (identify, deploy, operate- combined?). I can’t see how the needs are not worth the expense. Then the venerable a10 are spared for the punch. Combined operation (with the Cost Guard).

For France, deploying a limited number of those aircraft could help clearing the ISIR crisis. It will alleviate the Atlantic usage, allow the FrAF to participate in the effort and leave a boulevard for the Eu industry to calmly refocus its effort to produce a valuable/valid MALE (at last !).

My 2 cents obviously.

French warplane bombed Libya militias after French deaths

Why would they bomb if this was an accident?

Sorry. But you can blame the auto-corrector.
For the rest, you might want to read how the plane it is planned to operate her on this type of deployment. You are pre-judging according to the complexity of its modern system. As said before, complexity and difficulty are two different things.
Again, lets’ take another example:
you mobile is a complex assembly of cross-functional technologies assembled together to let you experience one of the easiest way to use a computer (and a phone). Even a child can use it (better than me).

See it the same way. So far, nothing can tell us that this process has failed. And quite on teh contrary we have testimony of young maintainer praising the way maintenance was designed.

@Scorpion: what makes the Bee more maintenance incentive then? It’s not like there is trace of your fear in OP report (see 35 cost per hour and availability ratio).
(duplicate from Ozair – sry).
@Marcellogo: that was a joke (a bad one). I know my fellow Italians as not being serial alcoholics.*;)
Regarding the 35, it should be noted that in term of maintenance it’s one generation ahead to ease the burden of such. We have plenty of testimony for this. This plane is designed to be deployed with a rather minimal footprint.

*I am Fr b/w