New information about problems with the Hercules aircraft fleet in Greenwood actually explains in much clearer terms why the joint rescue centre didn’t send a helicopter from Gander. To do so, at a time when the weather was iffy, might have risked preventing them from responding to a marine emergency. After all that is the first responsibility for military search and rescue. As much as fifth estate tries to spin the story otherwise, the people who did the searching in Makkovik were the people who were supposed to be searching.