Responsibility for ignoring the Boscombe Down grounding
ShyTorque,
Couldn't agree more! Your analogy is reasonable, if not altogether accurate, but the point is starkly clear.
Was that why their airships over-ruled the BoI? 'Cos if they had let it stand, the responsibility would clearly have lain at their own feet?
Reminds me of another BoI into a fatal crash in which I had a peripheral involvement many years ago. A certain Air Officer at HQRAFG was clearly so concerned about his position that I believe he called the President two or three times daily, trying to make sure nothing was emerging which might have threatened him. In the end, the fall guy was a relatively lowly Wing Commander. Strike you as similar?