Originally Posted by
Distant Voice
I am advised that the SI panel was not made aware of the safety case issue, nor were the made aware of the incident involving Mike Harland in Nov 2007, and the issues with post mod 02198 seats. I suggest that flying with seats that do not have a safety case (not airworthy) is a point of some relevance and should have been mentioned in the Tornado SI report.
Easy Street, you should also realise that the Tornado SI report was sent to the Procurator Fiscal and the Scottish Crown Office who decided, yet again, not to hold Fatal Accident Inquiry because it contained all the relevant information. They knew nothing about the Cunningham case and the importance of safety cases.
Here DV is at the nub of the issue. An Air Safety System that presumably (?) proselytises CRM evidently doesn't practice what it preaches. If evidence is withheld from an Accident Investigation then that Investigation is compromised, findings are skewed, and more accidents result. That sequence has been seen time and time again within the fatal accident threads of this forum. It seems that lies, omissions, and an appalling corporate memory is the stock in trade of the MOD and its Apparatchiks.
This cannot go on. The MOD is an unsafe pair of hands for Military Air Regulation and Accident Investigation to be in. Both must be removed from its maw, and become independent of it and of each other.
Self Regulation Doesn't Work and in Aviation It Kills!