Of all the people involved in the incident to XV235 on 5th November 2007 the very last one to be criticised is surely the aircraft captain! The MOD should have, and no doubt did, breathe a collective sigh of relief that his rehearsed game plan had his crew safely landed and evacuated within an amazingly short time of receiving the initial call indicating a bomb bay fuel leak during AAR. That the sigh of relief soon turned to irritation at the MOD when it was surmised that the fuel leak had stopped almost as soon as it had started, again thanks to an alert crew, and thus didn't constitute a threat in their eyes justifying a Mayday and immediate diversion is more a comment on that inept institution rather than anyone else. Perhaps the captain should be grateful that he has not been deemed to have been "Grossly Negligent"! Emotional? You bet given such a craven and corrupt system undoing the work of generations before, who indeed knew and applied TOFO's maxim:
The principle purpose of any accident investigation is to learn lessons and apply resolutions. All other outcomes (apportioning blame, commercial factors etc) are secondary.