As always Tucumseh has shown and understanding and knowledge of the wider issues at play here.
Everyone in the RAF should have a vested interest in ensuring that this QC inquiry and the more imminent Coroners Inquest is robust and transparent. Also that they are able to establish exactly how and where the process of airworthiness has been degraded and that it is made a matter of public record how, where and why these failures have occurred.
Charles Haddon-Cave QC is clearly very experienced in his field and I’m sure will see beyond the façade of MoD policy on airworthiness. The foundation of any investigation of this nature is establishing what should happen. Are there are policies/procedures? How are these disseminated/updated, are they implemented properly? If not why not? Are the people responsible for the policies and procedures aware that they are not been implemented? Etc etc…
On a slightly different point and without wishing to re-open old wounds here the BoI documentation is very clear that the problem is 'maintenance policy' not 'maintenance implementation'.