Sprouts72, thank you for your post here and for the no little courage it required when faced with the default hostility as above to the IDA. It has been a feature of so many fatal accident threads on this forum that NoK; be they wives, siblings, parents, or the children of the deceased, are prepared to speak out in the hope that others might be spared the anguish they have suffered. Their stories all have one thing in common, the glaring omission of the Duty of Care that those in the High Command of HM Forces owe to those that they lead.
One other feature is common too, that posts from NoK (such as yours) are studiously ignored by the MOD's apologists, who prefer ad hominem attacks against those who dare to question their version of events. No doubt this post will be no exception. As to the IDA's name, it can call itself what it may, a rose by any other name if you will. It will have a hard fight on its hands though. The vested interests of the Star Chamber has succeeded in maintaining a cover up of VSO Gross Negligence for over 30 years. The result has been the compromising of UK Military Airworthiness and Air Accident Investigation ever since. Only the total reform of Military Air Regulation and Air Accident Investigation can begin to turn that around.
Only the total reform of the MOD itself can begin to make the need for an IDA redundant, an outcome I feel sure it yearns for.