Air Asia Indonesia Lost Contact from Surabaya to Singapore

[WillowRun 6-3]

Then, what happened?

First, no comments whatsoever (or even questions) will be found in this post about comparisons of control yokes and sidesticks, and also nothing about control inputs or piloting techniques.

But what I do want to comment on, or ask about, is: what is the next level of authority, above the level of a given country's air accident investigatory outfit? I know already that there is nothing actually above the particular country's investigation board - that's just the point. It's up to "the industry" or some rudely conceptual agglomeration of constituents such as pilots (professional or otherwise), manufacturers, regulators, and so on.

What can happen and where?; specifically, where can the multiplicity of factors about avoiding or preventing the "next AF447" incident get sorted out? Maybe the answer is, there is no such thing. Which means, the sorting out of what to do to fix the problem or problems, preceded by the analysis of the cause or causes, defaults to . . . legal processes and the less-than-binding methods of the status quo. The efficacy of which speaks for itself, in this occurrence (and others).