BBC News - County Tyrone radio ham saves US plane after contact lost
Tyrone News, Tyrone Sport, your local newspaper - Benny prevents airline disaster – The Ulster Herald
So the questions - will the CAA (or is that FAA?) prosecute for unauthorised broadcast on airband? The article doesn't say where this happened but presumably it was it state side (which would maybe make more sense as there weren't high winds in Castlederg!).
Would you trust a Ham operator in his shed?
Were there no other planes around that would have been better relays?
Why wasn't the aircraft transmitting on guard (and so why did no one else hear their call).
Did this plane not have satellite phone as a backup?
Why has this only been picked up by Northern Irish press (as far as I can google)?