thing. and here you have the additional complexity of a mail asian airline, mostly chinese passenger, wreckage that hasn t even been found yet that may be near australia. the question of which country s court is something that s going to be very complicated to resolve. there have been at least some initial efforts to try to bring a case in the united states. it happened in the past couple of days, but you know, this is very early. this could be just intercontinental ambulance chasing. so this is all going to take a very long time to be resolved, legally. peter, you were directly involved over at the ntsb with the egypt air investigation. what happens in a situation like this when there s a multinational investigation. how do you determine who really is responsible? well, it is very complex. sometimes in silk air, even though the ntsb determined that the probable cause was pilot
not want to lose face, does not want to be told perhaps by the western nations, by america what to do and where to go. china has been repeatedly publicly criticizing them. how much does all that play into this sort of national identity issue? are you asking me quite a bit that one was to jim. david, you re next. okay. i think that plays a role. i had said on previous occasions that i thought this was much like the egypt air investigation. because you have a real dynamic between the military and the civilian aviation authorities. and you have a national airline. which means you have a national reputation to maintain. and unfortunately also, you have a lack of any type of independent investigative authority that can take control of the investigation, and manage