Originally Posted by
peekay4
Where you live, maybe -- but that's not typical for most of the world (e.g., US, UK, Canada, Australia, much of Asia including Indonesia).
Believe me,
common law system is not the most of the world.
Take a look at this map
Common law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And SE Asia is in most of it in
civil law.
But in fact that's not the point.
In the AirAsia crash, there is no evidence that a crime caused the accident, and therefore no charges are pending from the National Police for a prosecutor to examine.
But who stated there was not crime? Who examined the evidences?
In Europe, always when many people got killed and reason is unknown there is an default assumption that it could be a crime and should be investigated by law enforcement.
Of course it's always separate, parallel investigation to Board.
And it works fine. One week and GermanWings mistery is solved and exposed to families, other airlines and public.
In some countries obligation resting on commission to inform law enforcment about suspicion of a crime is enough. I can understand it, but result we can see (or rather cannot see)