JFZ90 wrote:
Nimrod - if you flew one every day for an hour it would be 342 years before you had any sort of incident.
I'm willing to stand corrected but are you really saying you would not have
any sort of incident? Ignoring the fact that you would probably struggle to find a serviceable Nimrod for an hour everyday I find that statistic extremely hard to believe in light of all the incidents that are emerging.
Gents I think it's clear that we agree on more points than we disagree on:
All the groundies and aircrew at Kinloss are doing their level best with the resources they have -
agreed
Lack of funding by successive governments and poor decisions by the MOD are a major contributing factor to the current situation -
agreed
In light of the lack of access to substantial remains of the jet the BOI is unlikely to provide all the answers
- agreed