Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"RAF, just how many people do you have working in your Hunter Design Authority Directorate?"
lots of course - but its SECRET covered by the Act as it could be of use to a Foreign Power - you'll just have to trust us....................
To be fair, when asked the question about this MoD confirmed neither it nor the RAF had ever been Hunter DA. That is, the accident aircraft's Airworthiness Approval Note, reproduced in the AAIB report, was based on a false premise. Which is rather important, as airworthiness facilitates serviceability. G-BXFI was neither.
Perhaps a greater reason why MoD and especially the HSE would not want this discussed in detail, is that the same AAN cites the MoD documentation that disproves the allegation against Martin-Baker in the Sean Cunningham case. And the HSE was a major contributor to the AAIB report. That is called prosecutorial misconduct.