And I hope they don’t take the easy option and pick on someone in the Nimrod IPT.
Once again tuc leads where others like me merely follow. Of course you are right, the blame game is not the essence of Flight Safety, rather it is to avoid further accidents. It seems to me that the root cause of so many recent tragedies has been the failure of the system that was supposed to prevent them, ie that of UK Military Airworthiness regulatory enforcement. That is what is fundamentally to blame and what must be fundamentally changed. Again I call for the establishment of an independent Military Airworthiness Authority. Better that avoidable accidents are avoided than sacrificial goats are offered for slaughter, however those goat-herds who ensured that the grazing was low cost but devastating should be brought to book!