One should realise that, if the MOD is forced to overturn its verdict on this case, that no armed forces aircrew is ever going to be able to be labled 'negligent' ever again in relation to any future aviation accident.
It's not like that out here in Civi Street. Out here it's every man for himself, and at the slightest hint of negligence there are lawyers hammering on the door and suing you....and if you're dead they sue the estate that you left behind.