Retired RAF pilots will be prosecuted if they shared state secrets during China flying lessons
RAF pilots will be prosecuted if they are found to have shared state secrets during China flying lessons, defence sources have warned. . . . A defence source told The Telegraph that while teaching the discipline of flying was not classified, teaching how to fight was.
“People going to foreign nations to fly is one thing, teaching how to fight is another,” they said, adding that signing the Official Secrets Act binds the signatories for life.
“If evidence was found that they were breaking the OSA we could prosecute,” they said.
Good. Time to get tough.