What I mean is that crown indemnity means just that: indemnity for the crown. The reputation of the individual helo pilot involved barely appears on the radar screen. He has clearly been hung out to dry and the message from all this to serving personnel is that when the chips are down you will not be backed up at all. You're on your own and it is naive to think otherwise. In fact, I think it goes further and that there is now an undercurrent in this country of the Salem witch trials. As soon as anything goes wrong, someone, the most convenient person, will be blamed, even if this is unjust.
We live in a harsh, unforgiving and unjust society and it is worth remembering this whenever one sticks one's neck out, in whichever sphere.
QDM