CV and mad panic behaviour

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Yes, I agree.

I've travelled a lot, on one flight there was a problem sending the passenger manifest, the flight officer talked the passengers through the full procedure and why there would be a delay landing, because they hadn't been able to transmit the document early enough to get the tick of approval on time to disembark. Air Traffic Control would put the plane in a holding pattern pending a gate being allocated. [member=827]capcom[/member] will know this better than me but as far as I know it is always the flight officers who send the passenger manifest to the destination sometime after departure and get cleared for landing while in transit. I suppose once the planes left the ground the passenger list isn't going to change! ;D

Sometimes very very rarely, I've had this happen twice in 40 years and hundreds of flights, your plane gets meet with a border control team to collect an individual before the rest of the passengers can disembark/deplane, I gather this was the Djoker scenario.

OK.

1.  The crew do NOT send a manifest to anyone.  They (the flight attendants) have a copy of it so they know who is sitting where assuming they each have their boarding passes on their person in the event they must return to their original seats in prep for landing.  That is a DCS weight and balance matter and way beyond the scope of this response.

The manifest goes to the arrival port via head office ops control and originally sourced from the departure port DCS manager in charge.  He's the guy responsible for having it signed off by the captain ... and it bears huge personal responsibility.

2.  Border control (using that term VERY loosely for the moment as it's almost always the State Feds) will be used for a PIC (passenger in custody) escort, unruly idiots under arrest for actions during flight, disabled passengers, spraying the cabin prior to disembarkation,  NEVER border control.