Last time you dared to criticise the BoI process Flip, you upset a few people. I wonder if those same people would like to come forward now and explain the delay. I have huge misgivings about the way BoIs are convened. I do not believe that contemporaries and immediate superiors should serve on the board. They are too close. I also believe that the BoI lacks clout. The reason this thread started was simply because the process to fit foam stalled just a few weeks after the BoI was published. The real power has been in the Inquests.
And look at the way Mr Walker and his Inquests have upset people on this Forum Nige! Why? Because he is independent, which is exactly what BoI's should be. It would be unacceptable if BA were to be the ones appointed to investigate their own accidents, but it seems to be quite acceptable for the RAF to do the same. It needs a military version of the AIB to do this. Employment opportunities for BOFs and Walts maybe, but it might avoid travesties such as Mull etc to be perpetrated. LCploH Hull's Inquest raised the old canard of Opsec, when the preoccupation was really A#sec! We are too fond in this country of "self regulation", left to the likes of "gentlemen". In these matters there are few "gentlemen", rather there are "bums and gangsters" to quote Sir Freddie Laker.