The two pilots have turned towards the camera and shows each with a thumb to the mission is managed. With toil and trouble is 108 danes finally brought home from the Philippines.
the Image from the cockpit of a Danish special flights, which have just reached the tarmac at copenhagen airport, Kastrup, is available on the foreign ministry’s Facebook page. However, it is not necessarily a success story.
despite a ticket for a seat in the cabin was 51-year-old Bob Arup is not among the danes, on Saturday the 28. march returned safely home.
He is still stranded in a country that is completely shut down.
And he started to become worried that the situation in the country runs wild.
“I looks to me that there will be a struggle to survive. A hungry stomach knows no law,” says Bob Arup.
the Dane has repeatedly been in the Philippines, where his girlfriend lives.
He should have been home with the English-requisitioned aircraft, but bad luck got in the way for his return journey.
B. T. has seen a receipt for the ticket he bought for the flight.
Bob Arup says that he is too good a week ago suddenly became bad and had trouble breathing.
the Suspicion of a new case with covid-19 was, of course, present with the same.
But Bob Arups disease was to prove to be a more harmless lungeinfektion, as he now has come over.
But the disease did not, nevertheless, that his name was deleted from the list of passengers to the aircraft with Copenhagen as the destination.
“When the doctors came and said that I was tampered of the plane, I began to cry,” he says
Now is the dane in an apartment in the city of Davao. Here, he has more or less entrenched.
It is permitted only to one person at a time from a household to leave the home, due to smittefaren under the corona epidemic, and there is, therefore, ‘completely deserted on the streets,’ says Bob Arup.
He did not however great desire to leave the rented Airbnb apartment.
even though he now feels safe, no idea he boldly.
According to Bob Arup is the locals obviously the pressure as a result of the restrictions that keep people from walking in public and at the same time leads to an implosion of big and small professions.
thus, It is not only The poorest, who are now begging for money, sounds it.
“There are more and more asking for money – also, those with ordinary clothes.”
“Many earn their money from day to day, but the opportunity is now taken from them.”
“I fear a little that there may come a riot. There must not be many weeks before coming a state, where people are desperate,” says Bob Arup.
in Front of the entrance to the apartment building facing the guards and the suits on the residents. And with a pandetermometer they check to see that no feberramte get access.
In his temporary residence will Bob Arup now ride out the storm.
He is in contact with the Danish authorities, he says, but the chance to get to the Philippine capital, Manila, with short notice, if a new aircraft should allow for a return trip, he expects too unlikely.
There are 1,500 kilometres, and domestic flights from Davao are put completely out of operation, says Bob Arup.
the Ministry of foreign affairs informs to B. T., who is ‘still an opportunity to fly out of Manila with onward connection to Europe, but the window narrows in the day.’
Further disclosed that the ministry together with the embassy in Manila, it succeeded in the past week to help 9 people to get space on other countries ‘ special flights.’
“I have been told that I have to have a good place to be and keep me updated. Right at the moment I feel safe and secure, but I sense that it is the silence before the storm,” says Bob Arup.
According to the Ministry of foreign affairs there are 58 danes in the Philippines, who have registered in the ministry of foreign affairs krisedatabase and thus asked for help to get home.
