I've been up most of the night and have had 5Live on the radio and latterly, BBC News 24 on the Telly... interesting to note that when talking about the return of the crew's bodies to Kinloss, 5Live mentioned initially that the Nimrod may have been involved in an incident whilst "refuelling in the air". However, BBC News 24 have not mentioned this at all and 5Live have now not mentioned it in subsequent reports. Nothing about it on BBC online either.
It's been a week or so since I read through this thread, but am I right in thinking the aircraft had succesfully completed air-to-air refuelling quite some time before the accident?
More journo carelessness, I suspect.