Jim - someone sold those corporate hustlers the idea of bidding for UKSAR promising them a pot of gold - not defending hustlers but someone had to push the idea through the boardroom.
BRS bid using the 189 knowing point 2.
Point 3 had been mostly covered in the doomed Soteria bid.
Point 4 is very valid but someone who doesn't value SARTC or rearcrew in general biased the salaries too heavily towards the pilots and forgot who actually takes all the risks in SAR.