A report by US daily New York Times (NYT) today claimed that although the American team are made of the world’s foremost air crash investigators, they will only provide technical assistance as Malaysia has the jurisdiction over the probe.
“Most of the local guys are pretty darned good … The problem they have is, they don’t do it a lot. We do this a lot,” Thomas Haueter, a former chief of air safety at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), told NYT.
According to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, also called the Chicago Convention, Malaysia has the jurisdiction in the investigation, although other countries are obliged to provide aid.