Yes Huck, I have to say a similar thought crossed my mind. I thought it sounded awfully like someone in officialdom preparing the ground for a "It wasn't our system that was at fault" defence.
Right, and they are doing that by acknowledging the real possibilty of a lack of ATC coordination between two centres as one of the contributing factors?
Despite what you may think, Brazil follows all of the ICAO norms of accident investigation and the causes of this tragic event will come out at or before the end of the 90 period originally stated. Nobody will hide anything and nobody will cover up anything.
As for a corporate pilot not forgetting who's in the back, who knows where the idea for the alleged test profile came from? If it happened, the idea is unlikely to have originated from the front seats.