I'm fully with you on that one !
These BEA guys and the experts involved have done a hell of a job to locate and recover the essential items of the wreckage.
It's easy now for all our armchairs experts to say that they should have found the wreckage on day 1 just after the A/C has disappeared :
- in extreme weather,
- in the middle of an ocean,
- in 3000-4000 meters of water !!!!
BEA made choices that were reasonable at that time and resources involved have included the French, the Brazilian and even the US NAVY if I do remember (meaning the US Govt was part of the conspiracy not to recover the boxes
).
Being failed by the pingers (and that need to be investigated), they made elaborate guesses and assumptions to go on. When they failed to find the wreckage during the pingers' life, they gathered a bunch of international experts (Russian, American, etc.), reviewed all available data and finally DID THE JOB.
So please let's stop all the bulls..t regarding the BEA being only a governemental agency full of incompetent bureaucrats with an hidden agenda ! (of course, that last one is not for you M. O and LW 50).