Tandemrotor
1.The evidence was compelling enough for the AOC to instigate measures to ensure that personnel had breakfast prior to flying.
2. If Flt Lt Tapper had partaken of breakfast in the Mess then both he and Flt Lt Cook could have gone to Met Brief together - standard practice for Flight Deck Crew in all my flying appointments.
3. There was also no record of any in-flight meals being ordered - hence the comment in the BOI that they were unlikely to have had anything to eat "other than a few biscuits" during the first sortie.
4. Nobody has yet explained (in the light of all the posts on this thread regarding Flt Lts Tapper & Cook "taking over" the VIP task from Lt K and Flt Lt T) why the 2 experienced Chinook Pilots flew the routine in -theatre Army support tasks with the inexperienced (on type) Lt K and his Nav programmed to fly the "VIP Task".
5. Finally, nobody has explained (again in the light of the posts on this and previous threads) how it came about that the BOI concluded that Tapper & Cook flew the fatal sortie because detatchment crews preferred to operate on a "day on - day off" basis. I wonder where that misleading information came from?