Tim - I have to disagree with your asessment of the BBC journalism. The programme has a slot of 30 minutes - it needs to get to it's point fairly quickly and I think most would agree that it did. Whilst it would be great to have an hour of Nimrod and disect the crash and indeed the current situation regards the fleet would that achieve any more. The general public probably has an understanding of the role of the Nimrod but not a great deal more.
Is it better to give them a barrage of information which might loose the audience to a large degree or keep it simple and succient?
Undoubtedly military and ex military types can pick holes in the programme but I feel that it hit it's target quite well whilst at the same time showed due respect to the fourteen servicemen lost last year.