Pyrpolizer wrote:Paphitis wrote:Pyrpolizer wrote:I notice there is a Chinese ship there too.
Now assuming the Chinese ship manages to collect some debris, and assuming on first look they have reasons to believe it's from the aircraft what would they do with them?
Pass it on to the Australians, or hide it down the hold and take them back to China for their own examination?
The search is led by Australia and the search area is within Australia's SAR zone. The Chinese are working with AMSA and other countries. The Chinese would have to hand all debris to the Australians which will take the debris to Perth for Air Crash Investigators to analyze.
Do you mean the Australians will issue a search warrant inside the Chinese ship before it sails back to China from the middle of the Ocean that it currently is?
The Chinese would never pull such a stunt because it would cause a major incident. I don't think the Chinese have any ambition to disrupt any investigations.
The Chinese are in fact cooperating very well with other countries including AMSA which lead the search operations.
I don't think it would be necessary to search the Chinese Ship because there is 100% trust between the countries and the Chinese Government would be briefed by Australia with all the information they currently have.
China has been a big contributor to the search effort.