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Originally Posted by Adam W
As for the choice of diversion aerodrome I realize that closest isn't always the best but I find it strange that marine rescue all along the WA coast were put on standby in case of a ditching. If they thought their situation was that dire then I would have thought that landing sooner rather than later would be warranted.
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When there is an Alerfa on a situation, the SARMC will take all steps to ensure all possible resources are on standby just in case. I had a Qantas trans Tasman flight suffer a cracked windscreen enroute NZ to Aus, it descended to a safe altitude and the only asset I had was a bou at East Sale. The bou was scrambled to shadow the inbound aircraft and as you can imagine it's ability to tail the jet was the intercept was done was limited. Better than nothing.
The best asset you could have was a P3 onsite, they were fantastic.