There is nothing sinister - except perhaps the MOD is being protectionary and protected because very serious errors were made regarding the way the Mk2 Chinook was ordered into service without a proper Controller Aircraft Release to Service and when the test pilots responsible for bringing it into service refused to fly it on safety grounds. They grounded it the day before the accident and refused to fly it even 10 minutes up the road so that servicing could be carried out.
This is the equivalent of an airline being sanctioned by the CAA to allow a new airliner to be put into use without a Certificate of Airworthiness.
The difference is that of course it would be the equivalent of the CAA also being the purseholder for the airline......
I formed this opinion in 1994 and have not seen, read or heard anything to suggest anything else.
There was certainly negligence involved. Go figure for yourself where most of the blame for this really lies.
