Should be a good show, but they’ll have to be careful at the airport: the runway is notoriously tricky (short, steep approach).

Thanks for publishing that Moggy. It is an in-depth review of the present wholly unsatisfactory situation. The fate of the aircraft is one thing, but that of its pilot is another. In this case the family of Dennis Copping would like to see his remains found and recovered. That is the important thing, as he can no longer express what he would want. Maybe the MoD has a policy, but in this case the buck is being passed back and forth between the various representatives of HM Government, whether in Egypt (“case closed”) or the UK (“it is being handled by the embassy”).

I still cannot understand why this whole affair has been confused and confounded by irrelevant and misleading information. What happened to the remains found by ARIDO? Left in the desert or “tested”? Was there a “second set” of remains that were found “unsuitable” for “testing”?

Why is there an apparent cloak of secrecy (or is it simply that someone is inventing a story to cover up a lack of knowledge) about the recovery and identification of any human remains? If there has been misinformation over the last couple years, it’s surely time to tell us.

Chitts: If that last kid had taxied any faster he would have done like the Victor did at Bruntingthorpe.

As for the pilot, we have continued to search for Dennis behind the scenes, and have found some very interesting information, despite all the false information propagated by the Italians et al.

As you may know (or may not) I have been trying to further the cause of the recovery (if possible) of Dennis Copping. I have offered to arrange testing of any remains for DNA analysis and I have been in contact with various authorities in Egypt and in the UK to see how best we could make a final identification of, at least, the bones reported by the Italian ARIDO team, with whom I have had a great deal of contact. But all to no avail. A few months ago a story surfaced that there was a second set of bones found, and that they had been tested in Cairo and found unsuitable for analysis, which I find difficult to believe, and which now seems to have been denied.
In your quote, above, you say you have continued the search for Dennis “behind the scenes”, and have information. Please let us know what this is. Or, if you prefer, please communicate with me privately (I have sent your a PM).
Thanks, and I hope you will be willing to do this.