ATC
award for swimming skills?
award for...?
actually, the crew just recycled 89 million dollars of aircraft into sauce pans, probably a % finders fee of the replacement price would be in order. That would be worth awarding.
According to what I have heard and understood the award request was for a ' skilled ditching" and saving lives. ( cartwheeling the aircraft to avoid the runway embankment) . Some say it might be a communication trick to divert attention to something else. Time will tell.
The CVR/FDR read out will be interesting .