Given the situation was/is as you describe it then surely our embassy would/could/should have taken the line of ” with the problems you are having and with it hopefully being a British subject may we take the responsibility for testing the remains”.
Or, on the other hand, and like I’ve already said, our attache was unaware of a test and therefore would be unable to offer assistance.
The wreckage was not found in a city but out in the deepest, darkest wilds, where there would be few admin offices, government ministries or forensic laboratories and certainly very few (read none) protests.
This being the case somebody went there, gathered the remains and took them somewhere to be tested, then Egyptian officials sent a official letter to our embassy giving the result. To my mind this somebody must be connected to the government, the lab is not known, the anthropologist Dr. Dina Shokry as head of Forensic Medicine at Cairo university you would think would have been involved, as I said more questions than believable answers.
I have no dispute with much of what you say, I was merely pointing out that, with the wreckage being not in the middle of a city in revolt but actually somewhere in the middle of a desert with not even flies for company, it wouldn’t be that difficult a job for a team to go out and retrieve the remains…
But this is pure speculation on my part anyway.
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