And yet, just 2 weeks after the 2018 SS was issued, bingo - an Airprox involving a Typhoon. The irony being, that time, it was RAF on RAF - tho it was traffic out of Humberside! Maybe a gentle nudge by the Fates ahead of something else? I hope not......... H 'n' H
It's even worse. At the time the SS was signed there had been two recent Class B near misses involving Lossiemouth Typhoons and passenger carrying civil aircraft. One on 14 June 2017, involving a Jetstream 41 out of Aberdeen and the other on 25 August 2017, again out of Aberdeen, involving a Saab 2000. The Duty Holder Concept, as it has become known, is not fit for purpose. The person responsible for meeting the operational objectives also determines when a platform is ALARP. Whilst Duty Holders can be called on to defend their SS in a court of law, in the event of an accident, that has never happened. All attempts to get the Moray Firth Tornado collision case to court has been thwarted by the Scottish legal system. Unlike England and Wales, where such an event would trigger an inquest, Fatal Accidents Inquiries in Scotland for military accidents were not mandatory before June 2017; and even now the new law is open to interpretation.
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