Vertico,
Thank you for your reply. I previously used this anaology: A civilian company puts forward a new type of aircraft to the CAA for testing for the award of a Certificate of Airworthiness.
The test pilots, having partly completed the trials, refuse to fly the aircraft any more because of fears of its safety and publicise this fact.
The following day, the company putting forward the aircraft ignores the grounding and uses the aircraft for a passenger flight (because they say, no other aircraft was available). It crashes, cause unknown, killing all on board.
If this were to occur, what would be the outcome? Who would be held liable? Legally and morally?
This is surely quite clearly obvious.