...we diverted to Akrotiri (we were out of Gib in a Nimrod on a medex) to pick up the wife of some Pongo who's Mum was poorly, and then fly her straight back to the UK...
Winco, I am not criticising you in any way. Whoever tasked that flight should have been disciplined, as it was a gross misuse of tactical assets.. I cannot imagine that 'the Pongo's wife whose mother was poorly' could not have been flown on a scheduled flight from Larnaca.