[wkat4242]

That's what China wants yes.

But while this helps the CCP party save face, it doesn't help to move on with the investigation. It's not even about the blame. We investigate air crashes in such detail so we can prevent them from happening again. Of course with an even bigger event like this we should do the same.

The pandemic has happened and no kind of blame or money can revert it. But we can try to learn everything about it that we can to stop the next one. I'm sure it was an accident but we need to know what happened.

For this reason I really think China should cooperate with the investigators.

[officialjunk]

let's remember that the US contributed the the funding of this research https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...

[wkat4242]

Assigning blame is not so important here. Finding out what happened is so it can be prevented from happening again.

But the US could perhaps push for openness considering they contributed financially. Though I suspect they already have and failed.

[landemva]

Pilots are licensed and airframes are certified. Licenses can be revoked. Where are the personal civil and criminal penalties for the GoF staff?

[roelschroeven]

You're missing the point. The main purpose of airplane crash investigations is to find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again in the future. This is done mostly without placing blame on anyone, precisely because that leads to finding a scapegoat instead of finding and fixing a problem.

Finding and fixing a problem is exactly what needs to happen here too.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

On that basis does the actual cause even matter as opposed to mapping out likely vs unlikely caused?

I’m sure air crash investigations would resolve many safety issues completely unrelated to the actual cause of a crash.