The design for the MRA4 was frozen as of December. It is perfectly relevant to challenge the thinking behind bringing into service a multi million pound military ac with no fuel tank protection, which, if built in the US would have been given state of art protection as a matter of course. Instead, it is being provided with a flawed AAR system, subject to scores of emergency engineering measures, which has not been designed to a civil standard, when there is a much safer design already in service.
Nobody can talk in absolutes here, it is in everyone's interest that the BoI report is published ASAP.