Originally Posted by
Less Hair
Isn't BFU entitled to initiate investigations whenever they feel it might be interesting to them? There is a german owner, PIC, destination, base and all occupants are german to start with.
ICAO Annex 13 regulates that quite clearly.
5.1 The State of Occurrence shall institute an investigation [...]
5.1.2 If the The State of Occurrence does not institute [...] an investigation, [...] the State of Registry or, in the following order, the State of the Operator, the State of Design or the State Manufacture [...] should institute and conduct the investigation [...]
There are lots of other provisions for tasking other states with the investigation, so maybe Latvia has asked Germany to do it, because they are not as well equipped.
Cheers,
Bernd