Icarus methinks you are being a bit to literal
Search or rescue or both. How else can I be OTHER than literal?
or is there some sort of anti red rat point to your post
No not at all. Is that a chip I see on your shoulder?
Well done to QF for getting involved in this. Please let us see it for what it really is. A commercial arrangement between a government agency (AMSA) and QF. They will be paid an agreed rate for the aircraft and crew and will not lose any money. If military assets were available under DACC then I am sure they would have been used. (P3?)
This is not big business helping out a struggling young sailor from the goodness of their corporate heart. It is the Australian taxpayer paying QF to do a job for them using one of their assets. (All for that in case you wondered)
Glad to hear Abigail is all well. Now, if I ran Qantas I would also milk it for all the
PR it is worth and be contacting her parents and offering to fly them anywhere on the network to reunite them with their daughter. Preferably standing in front of a Qantas
PR banner.
Call me cynical but THAT is how it works. If you don't believe me then YOU are naive.
EDIT TO REPLY TO KREMIN: Thanks. That makes more sense now. Radio report I heard said the yacht was all intact, perhaps I took it TOO LITERALLY and they meant the hull is intact.