New SoS
Brian,
You referred to a "new twist in the tale". Is there not now also an opportunity to twist the tail of the new SoS in a slightly different area?
Whilst I entirely agree that the airworthiness "policy" needs to be amended in order to avoid future loss of life, can the point not also be made that the sheer financial costs of these losses (and their aftermaths) should also be avoided?
Or perhaps that doesn't count in the eyes of a government which has, it seems, suddenly discovered an apparently limitless supply of cash with which to bail out the grotesquely incompetent banking industry. Perhaps the true problem is that our Armed Forces are just too competent to merit consideration!
All power to your elbow in dealing with yet another new incumbent.