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			OFFICIAL INQUIRY FILES and DOCUMENTSExternal Inquiry Municipal Aerodrome Portimao
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				This information belongs to the Ministério Público in 
				Portimão, Portugal.It was released to the public on 
				4 August 2008 in accordance with Portuguese Law
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				| 521 to 533 External 
													diligence re municipal 
													aerodrome of Portimao 
													2007.06.13 534 to 538 Analysis of CCTV 
													images from Albufeira marina
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				TRANSLATION BY INES |  | 08-02-Aircraft: Outro Apensos vol 2 Apenso VIII  521 to 538 |  
						| OUTROS 
				APENSOS VIII, volume II, 
 Pages 521 to 533
 
 External Inquiry
 
 Place: Municipal 
				Aerodrome Portimao
 
 Date: 2007.06.13
 
 Requested by: G. Amaral
 
 Executing Officers: Inspectors Ramos and Dordonnat
 
 
 Description and Result of Inquiry
 
 
 On this date we went to the Municipal Aerodrome in Portimao with 
				the aim of collecting information 
				related to the air traffic in that space between the days 25 ? 
				04- 2007 and 05-05-2007 as well as locating and collecting 
				flight plans between the dates 0321000MAI07 and 042100MAI 07.
 
 Together with the operators and consulting the lists relating to 
				the period in question there is only one register of plane not 
				familiar to the employees, which has the registration number D ? 
				EDBS.
 
 This plane landed in Portimao on 28 ? 04 ? 2007 at approximately 
				16.53 coming from LFBL (code corresponding to Limoges, in 
				France) and left on 06-05-2007 at about 09.47 headed for the 
				place of provenance.
 
 Its is recorded that the pilot is A**** S***** and a passenger 
				who was not identified by the security office at the aerodrome.
 
 Information was gathered showing that the individual in 
				question, although not a frequent visitor, would sometimes 
				travel to Portimao, in the company of his wife, as he has a
				holiday home 
				in this area, it is not known exactly where.
 
 It is stated that the Lagos aerodrome is functioning but given 
				that it is not certified there is no register of planes or 
				passengers, a similar situations in other of these installations 
				and it was established that the only registers kept are those at 
				the Portimao and Tires aerodromes.
 
 With regard to radar location, in the case of not having 
				transponder links with the craft, this is not detected, however 
				in the case of international flights 
				where the crossing of air space involves more than one country, 
				in principle this situation is not checked, 
				as the planes are detected by radar and the location is 
				transmitted to the central coordinator located in Faro.
 
 A list of users from 03 and 04 May 2007 is attached. The runway 
				is not authorised for use from 20.00 onwards and there is no 
				register of any abnormal situation, there is 24 hour vigilance 
				of air space.
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							|  |  OK, I have interpreted the diligence of 13 June re: the air 
				traffic information. The following is my personal opinion.
 
 On the face of it, and based solely on the reading of that one 
				report, it would appear that any holes one might have perceived 
				from the notes on the maritime work are magnified multiple times 
				over when it comes to air traffic - BUT - there are three points 
				of context that one must bear in mind:
 1 - this diligence was only in respect of civilian, 
				non-international-carrier traffic.
 2 - all flights over Europe have to register a flight plan and 
				have to fly with identification instruments active.
 3 - non-civilian monitoring of the European airspace far exceeds 
				anything done by civilians.
 
 In 1 and 3 above, we have no information in the DVD documents 
				about work done with international carriers and non-civilian 
				agencies. This applies to all types of flight: passenger, 
				freight and other.
 
 In 2 above, this diligence (and here I am reading between the 
				lines) appeared to be a meeting of representatives from the 
				larger civilian operators along the south coast of Portugal in 
				an attempt to confirm what, if any, additional information they 
				might have had for non-international-carrier flights to and from 
				their airstrips.
 Essentially, any aerodrome, e.g. Lagos - which is named in the 
				report - that is not 'certified' as being a part of the 
				international network of airports (e.g. viz: 
				
				http://www.airportfact.com/c5762-PT--portugal.html 
				) is not legally required to maintain any supplementary records 
				or logs of either aircraft or passenger manifests.
 In this meeting only Portimao and Tires were found to have 
				maintained any supplementary records. It was also noted that no 
				flights were permitted from the Portimao runway after 20H00 and 
				no extraneous flights were detected on 3 and 4 May.
 
 A final comment re: point 2 above, not only are there various 
				legal penalties for failing to use instruments correctly, 
				including fines, impounding of craft and freight, loss of 
				licence, etc., any craft failing to file, or deviating from a 
				filed flightplan, and found to be attempting to fly 'invisibly' 
				in European airspace, runs the risk of being 'met' by a 
				non-civilian agency. An unsatisfactory response to such a 
				meeting could, in a worst-case scenario, result in a newspaper 
				report about there having been an accident due to 'pilot error'.
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						| Page 527 you may find this report interesting:
 http://www.peter2000.co.uk/aviation/granada/index.html
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 As for the flight plan page, not everything fits the AFPEx 
				guide-screens exactly, nor CAP694, but that is probably because 
				it is a post-filing acknowledgement report as opposed to an 
				actual on-line filing.
 
 FF LPFRZPZX
 (Priority=FF=standard; Address=Faro)
 281450 LFPYZMFP
 (file-day-time=DDHHMM; originator=Bretigny-sur-Onge)
 -TITLE ACK -MSGTYP IFPL -FILTIM 281449 -ORIGINDT 0704281450
 (Acknowledgement of flight plan; filed on day-time: DDHHMM; 
				origin date-time: YYMMDDHHMM)
 -BEGIN ADDR
 -FAC LPFRZPZX (Faro)
 -END ADDR
 -EXTADDR -NUM 001
 (I think this means there is only one plan)
 -IFPLID BB73451562
 (flightplan ID)
 -MSGTXT (FPL-FHJCM-ZG
 (MessageText: type=flightplan - planeid=FHJCM - flight type=G 
				(general)
 -BE9L/L-SY/S
 (plane type=BE9L/wake turbulence=L (light)
 (-COM/NAV/APP equipt=SY i.e. Std VHF RTF,ADF,VOR,ILS+mandatory 
				radio w/8.33kHz spacing
 (/SSR=S Transponder ModeS+pressure altitude)
 -LPPM1700
 (departfrom=LPPM (Portimao);time=1700)
 -N0220VFR SOTEX/N0220F160 IFR W7 FTM DCT
 (cruise speed=0220knots;cruise level=VFR; Over SOTEX waypoint: 
				cruise speed=0220knots;altitude=F160;
 (route: change to IFR [mandatory in EU airspace]; ATS route W7 
				FTM;
 -LPCO0100 LPPR
 (Destination=LPCO (Coimbra); EET=0100 (expected flight time one 
				hour); Alternate=LPPR (Porto))
 -EET/SOTEX0015 OPR/PVT DOF/070428 ORGN/LPFRZPZX
 (expected to cross SOTEX waypoint after 15 minutes; 
				Operator/Private; Date of flight/2007-04-28; Origin/Faro)
 
 NOTES:
 The plan was addressed to Faro by an operator in France about a 
				flight due to leave Portimao 2 hours later on 28 April.
 Faro acknowledged the plan in which the plane would fly to a 
				waypoint called SOTEX, follow a pre-defined route known as W7 
				over a waypoint called MAGUM, then on to a waypoint called FTM 
				after which it will exit the flight channel to land in Coimbra.
 
 According to this document ( http://www.ivaopt.org/realops/traffic 
				) the SOTEX/FTM is a southbound flight channel; I would have 
				thought that he should have gone up via Troia/MTL.
 
 ATS routes:
				http://www.nav.pt/ais/aips/LP_Sup_A_2006_001_en_P1.pdf
 The only waypoint on W7 is MAGUM
 http://www.fallingrain.com/waypoint/PO/MAGUM.html
 
 Some airport data
 http://www.fallingrain.com/icao/LPCO.html
 http://www.fallingrain.com/icao/LPPM.html
 
 How it got from Coimbra to Braga would be the subject of one or 
				more other flight plans not on the DVD, and irrelevant to the 
				case. We only know about this plane because it flew to Portimao 
				on 3 or 4 May - and that is really the only 'fact' that we know 
				about it. The above plan was filed but that doesn't mean that 
				the flight actually happened.
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						| Outros Apensos VIII, Vol II Pages 534 to 538 |  
						| Pages 534, 535 Closing off the volume are pages which talk about 
						video material from the port of Albufeira being on two 
						video disks.
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						Policia JudiciariaReport on 
						Visualisation and Analysis of Audiovisual Material
 
 
 On this date I state for the process files that video 
						images from security cameras were visualised and 
						analysed from the Albufeira Marina, stored in electronic 
						format on hard disks identified as Disk 1 and Disk 2, 
						referring to the following periods of time:
 
 
 - Disk 1: period of time between 03.19 on 3rd May 2007 
						and 23.59 on the 9th May 2007.
 - Disk 2: period of time between 23.59 on 9th May 2007 
						and 23.59 on 12th May 2007.
 
 Nothing of interest to the investigation was found from 
						the visualisation and analysis of these video images.
 
 
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 Ministry of National Marine Defence
 National Maritime Authority
 Portimão Local Maritime Police Command
 
 
 Date: 24th May 2007
 
 Subject: 
						Disappearance of Girl.
 Collection of 
						Security Camera Images Albufeira Marina
 
 To. Portimão PJ DIC
 
 Within the scope of the investigations related to the 
						case mentioned above a copy of the information and 
						notification made by the Portimão Maritime Police is 
						attached.
 
 Signed
 The Commander
 
 
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 Albufeira Marina Video
 
 Starts: Vpd Intellex MM 2007 - 05-10-06-59-00
 Ends: Vpd Intellex MM 2007-05-13-06-46-34
 
 Albufeira Marina Video
 
 Starts: Vpd Intellex MM 2007-05-06-03-20-10
 Ends Vpd Intellex MM 2007-05-10-06-47-47
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