Originally Posted by
A0283
Avherald says this Mexican report is in spanish only... When you following the link the report has a photo format, so you cannot even copy paste the text into translation software.
So according to comments and articles above a bad report, no english version, and not even easily translatable. So not only Mexico dropping the proverbial ball here, but gets time for ICAO too to start doing something. I recently (had to) spend an inordinate amount of time on translating a Russian report (not successful...) and a large number of spanish language incident reports from Spain. You might call that a necessary waste of time.
You might say you take a high risk if you fly on planes from countries that do not publish reports. And take a medium risk if you fly on planes that do not publish an english version of their reports.
ICAO does not, and cannot, mandate that accident investigation reports should be published in any particular language, regardless of what Anglocentric readers might think. Spanish is, after all, one of the six official UN/ICAO working languages.
The fact that it's a scanned document and not a native PDF is, I assume, for legal reasons given that every page is countersigned by 5 individual members of the board of investigation.