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My heart goes out to you, sir.
With a little co-ordination, Bahrein could have changed all traffic to a secondary freq, allowing Dubai to use the Bahrein freq as a discrete. Also, part of the emergency procedure should be to declare a Mayday in the first place, then prefix your callsign on each subsequent transmission with the word "Mayday." That alerts traffic joining the freq that there is a dire emergency in progress. It works - I once had to use it, in China, of all places. The American phraseology of "declaring an emergency" is just not so explicit.