Tantallon, you missed one or two important names off your list....... the fools that allowed the "LEAN" process to be applied at Kinloss in such a way that there was an insufficient number of persons available to continue to maintain an old airframe in a suitable manner.
Reducing (or allowing to be reduced) your manpower by a given percentage (I don't know the exact percentages) just because you reduce the number of airframes by the same percentage DOES NOT WORK! The resultant chaos within the working engineering environment of 1st line (ok, "forward"!) and the ensuing mismanagement were all contributory factors. Now, NO BLAME rests with the poor sod engineers that were frantically trying their best to complete the tasks required to prepare and repair the aircraft, but surely some blame must rest with the fools that created that situation?