Originally Posted by grizzled
The "voluntary or not" part simply does not make sense. For an international investigative agency like BEA to imply that what we see could be kerosene (jet fuel) from a fuel dump is simply mind boggling.
It would appear that the persons named on the title page are the authors of the report that the "Drift Group" submitted to BEA.
Are these persons the authors of Appendix 7?
Was there a BEA person in the "Drift Group"?
Was there any knowledge of flight operations among the members?
Perhaps it helps to read the discussion of the 'pollution spot' in the main body of the report is on page 44, accompanied by figure 25 on page 45.