BBC Radio 4 tonight.
UK Sec of State for Defence Hammond was on, primarily about recent elections, but he stayed on to asked a few things about the search. Strangely, Eddie Mair asked him one of my questions above about airliners ditching on "our" side of the Atlantic. Maybe Eddie s a pruner? Answers:
(a) In that event it'll be a multinational response. RN Ships will probably be dominant. (Like recently looking for the Malaysian plane). That no one found....
(b) Eddie sort of let him off about the binoculars + RAF Herc. lash up being used to look for the missing yacht, but he did raise the point of its relevence.
(c) The USCG search will cease tomorrow, the RAF will carry a little further on the remainder of the day with its "sorties". But cease tomorrow evening (think that was right). Why so?
(d) Hammond is as slippery as any and played his cards right, and I think won this limited discussion.
And so it ends.