John Blakeley,
Thank you for your excellent posts, which have saved me a lot of delving through my records ro retrieve the data.
but the cynics amongst you might even think that this sorry tale of the development and procurement of the Chinook FADEC software was a major (if not the) reason for the RAF and MOD to cover up some bad news,
I certainly think that way.
Add to the mix the then recent change to crown indemnity rules, and there is a powerful case to find the crew responsible.
And therein lies the greatest difference between the concurrent investigations. One into a Tornado, which even with the benefit of factual evidence of likely error, but only two dead servicemen, who rightly received the benefit of the doubt; and our hapless helicopter, full (due to someone's lack of judgement) with passengers whose families may have been expected to seek large sums in compensation from the MOD, had the truth of the fiasco of the entry into service of the type been blamed rather than two guys unable to defend the finding against them.