Originally Posted by
charliegolf
Is the term 'MOD' being used here instead of, 'senior officer' or 'civil servant' or 'politician'? Or all, obviously.
CG
The term 'MOD' is being used as the body in whom Military Air Regulation and Air Accident Investigation is vested, via its various subordinate (oh, and 'independent'!) authorities. Of course it entails all three of the human components of which you speak. My point is that Military Air Regulation and Air Accident Investigation must be outwith the MOD and independent of it and of each other. These new bodies can retain their existing titles if so needed, what they can no longer retain is their subservience to those who have compromised military airworthiness and accident investigation, as witnessed in the sad series of fatal accident threads that litter this forum. That compromising was of course done by those of whom you speak (though I would add the word 'very' before 'senior officer'), simply because they could. We have to ensure in future that they cannot.