Originally Posted by
Magplug
(...) On the one hand the Chinese are being uncharacteristically open with their press conferences but may still be guarded in their admissions of the possibility of a mid-air collision with an errant mil-jet. Everything outside of airways in China is mil-controlled. Consequently getting co-ordination for wx avoidance is downright impossible. Equally an errant military jet may have infringed civil airspace resulting in a mid-air (...)
Am guessing at least one non-Chinese party (Boeing) will take part in this investigation.
A collision may be unlikely, but suppose that were the case. The Chinese would be reluctant, putting it mildly, to admit this.
Interesting dynamics in multinational investigation team, a bit like the WHO looking into the lab-leak hypothesis.