Ed,
Can I just ask you one simple question please?.......
Why oh why, in the light of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, do you still keep defending this government, RAF, MOD whoever about this accident?
The facts are pretty conclusive as far as I'm concerned.
I, and many of my mates, lost a lot of bloody good friends in 230. We nearly lost a load more friends in 235. At what point do you put your hands up and say 'you know what? The RAF/MOD whoever screwed up big time, and are doing their utmost to cover their ar$es'
Please take a look at the big picture and stop all this rubbish about niff-naff. An aircraft crashed and the crew were killed. Should it have crashed? NO. Could it have been prevented? YES Were the problems know about? YES. Has there been an attempted cover up? YOU BET YOUR LIFE THERE HAS.
You are clearly a knowledgeable guy, but I think that you have now become obsessed with trying to defend an incident which is indefencible.
TSM