To the Campaign, hearty congratulations on delivering yet further information to exonerate the pilots. It is an astonishing thing that through 14 years of thick and thin research no evidence has come forward to set back the suggestion that doubt about this accident exists. And the latest material cited by Channel 4 News and Dr Powers only adds credence to the belief that the test of AP3207 was neither applied nor met. Remember Pulford and Perks never saw that memo of June 2, 1994. And even without seeing it, Andy Pulford cleared the pilots of any form of negligence.
Even though the investigators learn more about the accident with each passing year, the Ministry of Defence has decided with an omnipotence only a bureaucracy could muster, that as a department it has nothing to learn about this accident because everything that is new to us is old to them and therefore dismissable. That they are prepared to illegitimise their own existence through such a coldness sags morale among the Forces fighting overseas and supported at home.