SASless wrote at #194:-
"We have (to) keep our sights on the right target (purposely phrased that way) so as to do what can be done to prevent this from happening again. That being the killing and wounding of our own people.
The shrill outcry for more training is a rather hollow demand. Until the accident chain caused by this tragedy is fully documented and investigated to identify its various components, no logical and effective action can be defined"
SAS thank you for your thoughtful reply. It seems we are in violent agreement! For this country, at least, all violent or unusual death of our subjects (sorry, citizens!) are the subject of investigation by coroners who have, as we see in the person of Mr Andrew Walker, peculiar and extensive powers to determine the truth of the circumstances of the death. He wishes to have the pilots give evidence as to what happened. If they did so it would no doubt be painful and embarrassing for them, but that would not be the purpose, rather it would be to discover that truth. Your inquiry seems not to have done that to our satisfaction, nor our inquiry come to that. Of course no genuine op sec should be breached, nor would it be. I suspect that all the worry about HUD videos, etc, is so much froth to hide behind. It could well be that the people most anxious to hide and to obscure the truth are Brits, as mentioned in previous posts. Whatever, the truth will emerge anyway. This is a variant of the Flight Safety model that has served our aviators, military or civilian of whatever nationality, well over the years. All the relevant facts must be known to arrive at the cause(s) and the recommendations to avoid a repetition. If there is truly a special relationship it must be capable of such a process or it is a sham. The money at the moment in the UK is on the latter, I have to say.