THE SUNDAY TIMES June 23, 2007
Nimrod failure was predicted
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1977632.ece
THE station commander of a Nimrod spyplane that exploded over Afghanistan warned a year earlier that an “unexpected failure” was likely with a similar ageing plane already 10 years past its out-of-service date.
The comments were made in August 2005 at the end of an internal report into a leak of superheated air in the bomb bay of a Nimrod.
In the report, an unnamed group captain says the leak was “a particular concern as the ageing Nimrod MR2 is extended beyond its original out-of-service date” of 1995. ...........
The Nimrod Families Deserve the Truth Now
http://timesonline.typepad.com/mick_...mrod-fami.html The draft report of the Board of Inquiry into the explosion of Nimrod XV230 over Afghanistan last September in which all 14 of those on board died has been circulating in the MoD and the upper reaches of the RAF for weeks now. I was told by an MoD official in early May that it was already with the MoD lawyers. The families of those who died were told they would see the report this month. Now they are told it will not be released until September. No doubt there will be “good reasons” given but if the report was ready in early May, it is difficult to see why it will take so long to tell the families how their sons, husbands, partners, or fathers died. ............
GOOD WORK MICK SMITH
21 Jun 2007
http://www.publications.parliament.u...07062166000035
Nimrod Aircraft
Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many fuel leaks were recorded aboard RAF Nimrod aircraft in the six months prior to September 2006. [142811]
Mr. Ingram: Between the period 1 March 2006 and 31 August 2006 a total of 52 fuel leaks were reported on Nimrod MR2 and R1 aircraft. A fuel leak is defined as any leakage of fuel from aircraft couplings, pipes or fuel tanks. These did not compromise the safety of the aircraft and were rectified under normal maintenance procedures