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Old 22nd Oct 2008, 11:50
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As flip says this is a day for our thoughts to be with the families who bear the unbearable, with the hope that it will bring some peace of mind at last. This is also a day to give thanks. Thanks to those who have persevered to unpeel and lay bare the intrigue and subversion that has sought to obscure the true story of why XV179 was lost. Many of them post here, whether under a nom de plume or in the clear. Others are known to us from reports of the inquest, The Coroner, Mr Masters, of course and certain witnesses, including the BoI president Mr Reid. Principally though the loved ones themselves, for whom this particular aspect is mercifully drawing to a close. Your steadfastness and courage throughout has been moving. To all of you I say well done, for there has been a greater service done here than the formality of an inquest into a terrible tragedy. It is now incumbent on us all to make certain that things change from now on so that such a known deficiency as was allowed, to render an entire fleet of military transport aircraft unfit to go to war, can never be allowed again.
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