Quite right tourist
I have nearly crashed my car a few times but got away with it, never needed the airbag or seatbelt what a waste of money they were! Come to think of it fire extingishers are a waste of time/money too, I've never needed one (well not for a fire
)
The response to this incident seems to have gone well
but was it flexible enough to cover the worst case scenarios when all the holes line up?
I'm struggling to think of another European country that has worse FW SAR cover now, I'm sure the spin doctors/beancounters will say that the UK is leading the world with it's more efficient approache to SAR etc.
Edit: Vim just seen your post, BZ all round! I agree that for the situation that happened yesterday the platform was probably better than MPA, but it lacks flexibility. There aren't many countries looking to use it for FW SAR.