Loads of conjecture and of course there is always the "what if" or "but perhaps"
At the end of the day there is always the chance that an Art Stacey of the heavy airline brigade will pull off a blinder and make the Ex 2 engined....now glider on an ETOPS route land on water....
Personally lets hope boats can get to it, give the people some chance at least. Locating it? Of course the lack of any MRT assets for our part of the Atlantic is has has been said...well, damn near criminal.
Personally I remember getting as far as 14 1/2 W in a Sea King, without the Nimrod types (and their DCS consuming contest en route) our 12 minutes on scene would never have been enough to find the B---dy Spanish Trawler in the first place since he was 18 miles from the datum we were given. Also thanks to all the crew working on Daltons with wind applied etc our route back to Glasgow down wind rather than else where was a great confidence boost that our sums were right........and that was including an outbound refuel in Benbecula.....
Truth is we have to hope if it ever happens we really do pull a miracle out of the almost empty bag we now seem to be holding.....
