Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 10th of April 2019Case name: 2019_04_10-AEG505
Situation: 29 travellers picked up by Turkish Coast Guard
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case:
On Wednesday, 10th of April, at 10:30pm CEST, the Alarm Phone was alerted to a boat in distress that was on its way to Farmakonisi, carrying around 21 people. There had been no contact to the boat since 9:30pm. The last position that was transferred to us by the contact person showed the boat in Turkish waters at around 9pm. We couldn’t reach the travellers. At 10:55pm CEST we called the Turkish Coast Guard that informed us that they had picked up a boat with 29 travellers in the area concerned. We couldn’t reach the travellers any more and could not confirm definitely if the boat we were alerted to was the one intercepted to Turkey.
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