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In both accidents BEA management sat on previous occurrence reports. If they had been circulated and the pilots concerned learnt from them the accidents might not have happened.
Stan Key was sent to Coventry by a few of his colleagues for not persevering in getting Jimmy Thain reinstated. From what I witnessed of his behaviour the day before the Staines accident he was a very unhappy man.
PH, our union rep, on Tridents at the time posed his theory that as long as we had only one aircraft loss a year then managers were happy. From November 71 till I left to the VC10 6 years later our group lost eight aircraft.