Authorities in Kasachstan boycot German and Canadian accident investigators
Sources close to the only surviving cockpit crewmember indicate, that Kasachstan’s Authorities hastily destroyed the remaining de-icing fluids that were used during the night of the accident. They apparently neither allowed foreign investigators to take samples of the fluid, nor did they allow them to collect a sample of the accident aircraft’s structure for further metallurgical analysis…
Russia’s MAK is still in possession of the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, but do not grant German or Canadian Authorities access to them for detailed data readout.
What could be the reason for this? Why did the airport manager already a few weeks ago in a ‘preliminary report’ publicly announce pilot error to be the probable cause? Why is Kasachstan so eager to point into the direction of the crew?
Something’s awfully wrong here.