At the risk of keeping this thread alive long after it should be buried without honours...
Whether we like it or not there is a definite
perception that aircrew related incidents are treated by those on high with more sympathy than groundcrew related ones, a belief that leads to a sense of injustice. With the slow take-up of HFOR this is hopefully being redressed, fingers crossed.
I well recall an incident at our secret Wiltshire base when one of our cabs got itself damaged in a flying incident. A board of enquiry was convened and, at some point, began examining the engineering paperwork raised to recover the airframe. An anomoly was found which caused such excitement amongst the BOI team that their pursual of this avenue of investigation threatened to overshadow (not my words, the words of our bosses) the fact that their initial remit had been to investigate the flying incident that had led to the paperwork being raised in the first place
