Let's look at this thread according to the way that operations were carried out at the time of the event, 1971: not 21st Century hindsight or even 1990s standards.
As TC says Flight Safety was a completely different kettle of canaries compared to today: even compared to the late 20th Century. Many incidents went either unreported or 'under' reported and after event dissemination was scarce as most of us who flew military back then can attest. The RN was probably the worst since the world wide operation with slower communications was such that signals could take days to work down through to the recipients. The easy way out was to not bother to share details following an incident outside the ship or squadron involved.
My logbook shows 305 day/115 night deck landings when I left, and one or three were certainly reportable incidents by todays standards. Those up the food chain decided otherwise and it was always dealt with at squadron level; such was the way of things in the 60s and earlier 70s.