Airpig & Uncle G
The Dips is not a problem (as AP would seem to already know) . These would have been dip'd under the standing no-notice authority by the DA/Amb level across France, Italy and Spain, Tunis would have been even higher!).
STS/ATFMX STS/HUM STS/HOSP would have been applied to these flights in the FPL (since 2005, BZN have been able to self-auth under licence, meaning no CTOT aka Slot-time from EuroControl.) (GA-PPruners WARNING - Audits are regularly checked to ensure paperwork is in place, with fines for those who haven't!)
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The delay would have been the nationality ID to enable relase of the bodies to the right nation.
How many people carry ID to a beach when wearing trunks or bikini/swimsuit?
I wouldn't!
The local authorities would have been trawling the hotels for rooms unexpectedly unoccupied (reported by cleaners) for several nights, searching them for fingerprints/DNA, comparisons with victims.
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On a more compaassionate level, as someone who has served in BZN Ops in the past, and witnessed many a mil RePat, I can confirm that from the moment they were entrusted into UK care, they will have been treated with the utmost compassion & respect that the UK people consider normal & appropriate to the departed. May I wish my personal condolences to ALL families.
Especially to the family of the victim (& his patient wife) who shares a name with my brother, who has recently stayed at a hotel 2 doors along from that beach, what a spooky coinidence! - I have had to reassure several people (friends & family) that they were of the wrong assumption & that my brother was safely home in the UK and not involved, but still with the eirie feeling that someone sharing his name was a victim.
Last edited by unclenelli; 1st Jul 2015 at 18:35.