Seen the latest Committee of Public Accounts report on Battlefield Helicopters? (
http://www.publications.parliament.u...cc/386/386.pdf) The report states that: "The acquisition of the Chinook Mk3 is one of the worst examples of equipment procurement that the Committee has seen." The MoD said that without access to the manufacturers' software codes, the aircraft couldn't be tested for airworthiness, and MoD failed to specify at contract what its requirements were for independently validating the software. Was Boscombe missed out of the loop somehow? They certainly took a lot of MoD flack after ZD576. Any comments?