Lonewolf: "I recall the volumes of criticism BEA received over the AF 447 accident. Well, don't you wish they were running this one?"
Does anyone with knowledge of ICAO / UN protocols know how professional a country's investigators have to be before they're allowed to take the lead? It's accepted that most African countries don't have the capability and would ask another state to help. In other words how to remove that responsibility from a state that is sure to find only what suits them (MSR990 ....)