OM - Polar Air case was a safety issue, wasn't it?
Ain't they all? But; and I've only plucked this 'off the wind', I hear it all began as a routine dust up between a CP who probably knows what he's about and yet another FOI who probably thought he knew better; and, Mummy smacked.
TB - Well imagine their effort with "Tiger".
The tigers tale is almost unbelievable, it should be published as a novel; pure fiction, it would rival some of the most intriguing, imaginative best sellers ever offered. Hell, they'd make it into a movie if only it had a happy ending.
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution. Fanny Kemble
It's fair to say that both these episodes have great potential to haunt the future, much as Hamlet's beloved ghost. There have been too many gross errors made in the past, not all of these can be hidden by smoke. Elephants in the room, mills of the Gods and all like that.