Mutton…..
“…and they have flown safely for 15 years”
MoD Safety stuff…..
“Actions and decisions may be challenged by others, sometimes with the benefit of hindsight. A decision may have to be defended on the basis of judgement and so the decision process must be documented and all judgements and assumptions validated wherever possible. “It has never happened before” is not valid evidence on its own, that a particular event will not happen”.
The SoS justifies not grounding Mk2 by virtue of the fact there have been no fatalities since. Yet again, MoD seeks to confuse the timeline by talking in the wrong tense. The simple fact is MoD was required to retain all necessary documentation, including reasoned responses to the Boscombe letter of 2nd June 1994. His reply to Mr Snow was, therefore, disingenuous. Where is the other evidence his own rules required which led to the decision to ignore Boscombe?
“Nothing has been covered up”.
Really? 14 years and key airworthiness documents still cannot be found, even though they will have been copied widely. MoD continues in its attempt to cover up the verifiable fact it did not comply with its own regulations. Like Nimrod, Hercules……….