Unfortunately from 1983 onwards any interest in or liking for aircraft has been almost a taboo in BA management and could be distinctly career limiting. Ayling is said to have professed to having absolutely no interest in them,- and indeed a dislike for aircraft or anyone who talked much about them other than in the purely business sense. As result the unique Argonaut and the last BA Comet 4 were in turn assigned to the LHR fire dump. Since the Headquarters moved out of the Hatton Cross site in 1999/2000 most of its incumbents, other than when travelling, have seen little of aircraft, crews or ground staff and there is amongst them little interest in aviation per se. Businesswise it will be argued that that is no bad thing ,but in this environment the Cosford disaster was predictable and has been presented by the company as a positive contribution to preservation. They probably believe it too.