Diligence?
Cazatou,
It is a pity that given the time they had for such diligence they did not consider the airworthiness and operational implications of the Boscombe Down letter based on the 25 May 94 meeting - the details have been posted on this thread. You will recall that previous incidents on ZD 576 were amongst 15 unexplained in-service (not flight testing) problems that led to Boscombe grounding their fleet (for the second time) and recommending that the RAF do likewise. ZD 576 was lost as this letter (to DHP) was being issued. Interestingly DHP did not mention this letter in his briefing to the MOD legal team for the Scottish FAI and as far as I am aware it was not even brought forward to the HofL Select Committee - it is still a fact that the BOI was never asked to look at the airworthiness of either ZD 576 or the Chinook fleet at that time. I think it is not unreasonable to wonder why such basic questions were not, apparently, asked - if not by the BOI then by the diligence that you say was part of the review process. Perhaps you know why?
JB
Last edited by John Blakeley; 19th May 2008 at 07:30.