The MAA were then invited to review their work given the severity of the findings.
Marking their own homework?
To understand the full extent of the maladministration, one must go back further. Some might say that audit arose from a December 2012 report highlighting serious airworthiness shortfalls going back many years. As reported by the RAF Director of Flight Safety from August 1992. And before him..... It's all now a matter of public record, which doesn't stop the MAA claiming none of this happened and that they, alone, uncovered the airworthiness failings post-2010.