I absolutely agree with pirate. In most of my time in the RAF no speculative comment was ever offered at the time of an aircraft crash. Sure the press speculated in some cases but the military was exemplary in refusing to speculate. Now we appear to have the spinning machine in full throttle. The Hercules crash last year was initially described as an accident. The Hercules that perished this year on a strip in Afg was described as having suffered a tyre failure, despite the crater in the strip. Now we have Browne ruling out enemy action after this Nimrod tragedy.
Why have our leaders allowed the politicians to muscle in on air accident investigation territory?