Great piece by BBC East, the whole section should have gone out on the National network. As to you Chappie, as moving and as outspoken as ever. Don't ever change, please! It was on this thread and very much thanks to you that the whole scandal of RAF Airworthiness shortcomings was exposed, first here, then on the Nimrod thread, and now on the Mull one. The first priority was for ESF to be retro-fitted to the Hercules fleet. Uphill work but now, thank God, done. The next job is to ensure that the Military Airworthiness Regulations, that should have ensured that anyway, are revised to include fitness for purpose in all military aircraft. That's the easy part, the greater challenge is to ensure that Airworthiness cannot in future be deliberately compromised for (very) short term financial gain, resulting in the certainty of an avoidable accident becoming unavoidable in the future. There are those who know how and why this happened last time around. Now is the time to contribute to this discussion, instead of leaving it to a committed few. This must never be allowed to happen again, so the system has to change to make sure of that. How should it change? My preference is for an external MAA, but it may well be that it can be done "in house" in far less time and with much less upheaval. This forum has contributed greatly already to exposing this scandal, now it should go on to point the way to preventing a recurrence.