However, if we count the loss of HM Airship R38 on 24 Aug 1921 or R101 on 5 Oct 30 then the 44 and 48 respectively that perished pushes the CH47 into 6th place for ‘worst RAF accidents in peacetime’.
Was any of the first five handled any the worse than the Chinook Crash with the horrendous disservice done to the Aircrew killed isn those other five crashes?
I am not challenging your offer of information but posing an honest question about the outcome of the the investigations into those crashes and the attempted and determined...andt continuing effort to protect the really guilty seniors as this one?
The whole airworthiness issue beginning with why what should have been an off the shelf purchase could. have gone so badly from the very start....and the cover-up based upon the complete denial of both the cause and result of the mistakes made by the senior management has yet to be fully exposed to the healing benefits of direct bright un-shaded Sunlight.
What was said about the RN not improving until a few Admirals had been hanged....holds true for the RAF and MOD as well.