Strongbowfan
"I know for dam fact that aircraft was Serviceable the day it left"
The a/c may have been serviceable that day however serviceable and airworthy are not the same. If you have been following this thread tucumseh has shown the differerence very clearly on a number of Occassions.
The MOD/Goverment/RAF have all admitted that XV230 wasn't airworthy because it failed to conform to airworthiness regulations eg: JSP 553-Def Stan 00-970 etc.
JSP 553
The formal definition of airworthiness is:
"The ability of an aircraft or other airbourne equipment or system to operate without significant hazard to aircrew, groundcrew, passengers (where relevant), or to the general public over which such airbourne systems are flown".
AAR has been stopped and the SCP switched off . Why ? Because they were/are a significant hazard to aircrew. As the loss of XV230 showed.