John Purdey:
Tucumseh. Your statement above is fascinating '.....senior staffs of the day (throughout the 90s) felt confident enough to issue edicts that airworthiness shall NOT be maintained.
Fascinating? Fascinating? Of all the adjectives that might sum up tuc's revelations about the murky machinations at the MOD over the past two decades concerning the way that the entire UK military airfleet's airworthiness has been compromised by the complicity and direction of senior officers there are surely more appropriate words than fascinating to describe them? Shocking and appalling are two that come to mind for a start. As for...
Nothing of course to do directly with the Chinook disaster,
That statement is based on what precisely? The BoI, W&D's bombshell? Neither to my mind determined the cause of this accident. There are more worms to be extracted from this can yet. In the meantime the only honourable thing for the Royal Air Force to do is to ensure that this travesty of justice is righted forthwith. Every day that it continues is a stain on its honour.
Let Right Be Done