Media reports in Spain all assert that "because the Republic of Mali does not have the infrastructure to undertake the investigation it has already/ is on the point of handing over the investigation to the French Authorities."
I think it was Spanish pilots' union SEPLA who were quoted as saying "for a Spanish registered craft with a Spanish crew, Spain would be a more appropriate country to take charge of the investigation."
- Common sense?
- Misplaced national pride ? (Don't bother telling me that other countries don't have this defect!)
- A guarantee that the report would be inconclusive (save to highlight that that the Chicos del Minsterio had done everything but everything "by the book") and that the report would not be available in the lifetime of the youngest poster on these boards?