In the report, the Rudder Limit error comes after a bunch of auto-pilot and navigation stuff. It sounds like the display and instrumentation took a dump before the rudder stuff. And two very odd warnings about two hours before the crash. Keep in mind, they rolled over into the next day on the flight.
“Twenty-six maintenance messages relative to flight AF447 were received. Twenty-four of
them were received on 1st June between 2 h 10 and 2 h 15.”
“The first two messages were received the day before at 22 h 45. These were a class 2 fault message and a related MAINTENANCE STATUS TOILET cockpit effect message. The fault message, “LAV CONFIGURATION” (ATA 383100, source VSC*, HARD) represented a toilet configuration difference between the airplane and that included in one of the associated systems. “
What the heck is all this about? Probably nothing, but still...
Any ideas?