Does anybody know for sure whether Air Sarina had an AOC?
I assumed that they did hold an AOC, as they seemed to operate air-taxi out of Saanen. I presumed that they had dispensation for single-engine ops from SwissControl, but as another forumite has pointed out, this was not the case.
So under what regulations were they operating?
Rumours are floating around that the pilot was unwilling to divert to Berne because he knew he was operating illegally. Also that he was inside a fairly severe cell, not in VMC as implied in the newspaper article.