Exactly tuc! Anyone can make reassuring commitments to ruthlessly holding VSO Duty Holders to account, but it is by their actions that we should judge them. In reality none of them are held to account but instead protected with a tissue of lies of omission and commission, and by persecuting their juniors in life and even in death. The whole concept that the MOD, the perpetrator in this scandal, should be judge and jury of its own case is risible.
If the results of this dysfunctional and corrupt system were not so tragic it would make for an amusing plot for Yes Minister. There is nothing amusing or redeeming about the MOD. No matter how the goal posts are moved or relabelled, UK Military Air Safety remains at the mercy of further subversion and suborning by VSOs. It has to be freed from their grasp, and Regulator and Investigator made independent of the MOD and of each other.