Preliminary incident report within 30 days
Under the terms of the IATA/ICAO treaties, the authorities in charge of investigating an aircraft incident involving death are required to publish a preliminary report within thirty (30) days of the incident. Recent experience with the Malaysian government suggests we should set the bar for details and truthfulness pretty low. Perhaps April 7th will come and go with no report at all. After all, there is no evidence of casualties. Nor, to be precise about it, is anything definitive known about the incident/accident. It would be nice to know the assumptions, science and conclusions which underpin the search and investigation so far, but they would not necessarily be described in an accident report. It is disheartening to imagine that we may never know what happened to MH370. Even worse: we may never find out why the search took the turns it did.