LJ
I was interested in reading your post, right up until the point where you say ".....we can let our brothers rest in peace and stop trying to blame people" I can find nowhere in this thread where any one individual has been blamed or where it is even suggested that there is blame attached to them, other than to those responsible for procurement, whether that be spares, manpower or whatever.
The cold, hard and brutal facts are that our Royal Air Force, yours, mine. everyones has been starved of the financial support vital for any organisation to survive. There is not enough money given for manpower, and there is not enough money for spares. Throughout the whole of the services you will see evidence of cost cutting measures to a degree that borders on the ludicrous and now the dangerous. Of course we all know that in fact there is plenty of money around, just not for our Armed Forces any longer (dome, Olympics, Asylum seekers, Refugees - you name it!) And so the only real people to blame is the government for the starvation of those funds, and the hierarchy for not making a stand over it. But who elected them to power? Unfortunately we did. Not me personally, but the British public did, and therebye lies the problem Sir.
Tappers Dad has every right to demand the truth about XV230. He has a duty to his son and to the rest of his family, to learn about the tragedy of XV230 and I find peoples inability to understand and accept that as disturbing and unfair on him. I would feel exactly the same if it was my son also. I would want answers.
Lab Queen, I am aware of who you are, and you have my sympathy, but try not to stoop to personal attacks on individuals who are dealing with their loss in a different way to the way you are dealing with yours.
Nige, I have (sadly) been on a BoI and would just point out that in the main, the job of the inquiry is to (try) and ascertain the facts immediately leading up to, during and immediately post the event. The BoI can make recommendations, but I would stress that they are only recommendations, and nothing else. At the end of the day, it is up to the airships to decide how and where they spend the money, and therebye also lies another problem.
We all complain about MPs, and I would be the first to say that they are in the main untrustworthy andunderhanded, but we cannot condem one of them for doing his job and representing his constituant can we? Lets give the man the opportunity to do the right and proper thing and then pass judgement on the outcome.
The Winco