Guilty Plea
On the basis that those with knowledge of the 'complete situation' also know that the wrong company was being tried; MB (no doubt after a very careful review) took a 'commercial decision' to limit the ongoing 'open wound' situation that a major investigation would have started.
At the end of the day the British public (or media) are not seemingly outraged by all this and the failings of the RAF/MOD/ RAFAT, is not something that sells more media.
MB would have ended up having to expose its 'customer*' and its* lack of attention paid to a very important and highly technical piece of survival equipment, and at the same time try to protect its name from being dragged through the process which was not of their making.
However what surprises me is that their legal team did not manage to convince the HSE that MB was not at fault and therefore the case was not at all in the public interest as the real culprit was the Government equipment user in this case.
As far as the 'Man on the Clapham omnibus' is concerned MB make excellent survival equipment, and the RAF are pleased to use it. I would have thought the HSE would be better tasked with dealing with the appalling state of many road surfaces and associated incidents, plus the ongoing deaths at rail crossings that still continue.