I've said it before and I'll keep saying it. Several someones, somewhere within the RAF/ACO and its contractors have committed criminal acts, including fraud of several types, have put the lives of teenage children and adult staff at risk and have criminally shredded many documents. They should be held to account in a court of law.
Why there hasn't been a criminal investigation, not least by the SIB, and more correctly by the various constabularies where these acts have taken place I don't understand. It's time that SoS for defence took up the case. Whoever on here has him as their constituency MP should request that he extracts digit and gets on with it.Ditto anyone with the Home Secretary as their MP in reference to the various local constabularies
Precisely.
And while the inquiry is at it, encompass those where the same offences have been committed. Chinook ZD576, Hercules XV179, Hawk XX177, Nimrod XV230 and many others.
Oh, and the names are known and have been published - and they go far higher than some Gp Capt. MoD denied the names were known. Those who could read MoD's phone directory knew.
Secys of State have been informed. The only one who spoke up was Malcolm Rifkind, on Chinook and many years after leaving office. Every member of the Defence Committee has been informed; most recently Johnny Mercer, who was the only one decent enough to reply. Many other MPs, notably Angus Robertson and Sir Roger Gale, have made a nuisance of themselves asking awkward questions. All were lied to. The judiciary knows this and is content. As are the police. Coroners know, and for the most part have been robust (the main exception being the Sea King ASaC mid-air, where he stopped families challenging MoD lies). The mainstream media is MoD's dog. MoD denies the existence of written, photographic, aural and video evidence. The public provides it, but these entities accept the denials.
The honourable exception was Haddon-Cave (for all his faults). The problem is, very few (including many posting here) recognise that his Review discussed the same failings that apply to gliders. Substitute 'Nimrod' with 'gliders' or 'Hawk' and his report remains perfectly valid.
Whoever provided Private Eye with the information has done a good thing.