Magners drinker
What you are failing to understand is that when the problems on the TWA flight and the 737 aircraft were identified, then action was taken immediately.
That was NOT the case with the Nimrod fuel tank/leak problems. You say that the incidents were not related, but I would have to disagree with you. The evidence strongly suggests that there was a link. I suppose there is a likelihood that they were exactly the same fault/failing. But to say that 227 had no bearing on 230 is not correct, because you don't know that!
Either way, the MOD chose to do nothing, and we all know the rest don't we.
TSM