Thomas coupling
Hummingfrog: you talk some complete and utter bollocks.
At 10am on the morning of Sunday 23rd June 1985, I was duty SAR for an RN SeaKing which launched 40 minutes after the Air India Jumbo disappeared off radar. Our a/c was the 1st on scene to meet a calm sea of 200+ dead bodies and debris scattered over 6 miles of sea. The RAF were to turn up over an hour later.
I am afraid that it is you TC that is
"talking some complete and utter bollocks"
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Flight 182 disappeared at 0714 GMT on 23 Jun 85 we were scrambled shortly after 0730GMT and were first on the scene to be confronted by a patch of aviation fuel about 1/2nm across in which were floating bodies, wheels, seats and a lot of overhead baggage lockers. We searched the area looking for survivors and as we reached our fuel limit for return to the mainland we made the decision to recover bodies which were taken to Cork.
I think your memory is either faulty as if you were scrambled at 10am you arrived long after the search was started or you believe the usual RN
PR that they are always first at an incident never mind the truth
HF