you re supposed to have, you know, good cause. you re supposed to have a good faith basis. right now without the by the way, one of the things the family asked for were the maintenance records and the plane logs. those are probably right now the two most important things they could have. theoretically you could find information about a possible plane malfunction or broken things in the fix and plane logs and maintenance records. with don t even have those. it s going to be difficult to file a lawsuit against anyone other than malaysia, against malaysia air. and malaysia air will simply defer to the on going investigation when you hit them with requests for production of documents. they ll say, we can t respond because there s an on going investigation. that usually buys them a heck of a lot of time. so we need just a little bit more before i think people can reasonably see real lawsuits. i mean, there might be some that are filed frivolously. but tiny bit more information is needed.
how would it be difficult to manage those resources? i thought australia was in charge of this operation? they are in the water search, but of course malaysia is conducting the criminal investigation because they re still looking into criminal possibilities. then there s also the support investigation that goes into the civil crash site. the looking at the records, maintenance, flight log, plane logs. all of that has to go on too. it sounds as though they re feeling strapped for resources. all they have to do is reach out. there have been cases and instances in the past where countries have given the control of an investigation to another country to manage, so if they get truly strapped all they have to do is ask. many nations including the united states are capable of doing that. do you think they would reach out to the united states and say take the lead? no. they wouldn t do that probably for one reason.