UK Military Airworthiness
tucumseh, your perceptive post illustrating the Gross Negligence of the UK Military Airworthiness Authority (AKA the MOD) is timely. Reading the Telegraph piece one might well think that the story is of two Chinook HC2 pilots sacrificed to protect those who presided over the operation of this flawed type, leading to the loss of not only an RAF crew but also the cream of British Intelligence on the slopes of the Mull of Kintyre. Of course that is part of the story, but only part of a much bigger and even more damning one. This is a story of the intentional dismemberment of the airworthiness protection of the UK Military Airfleet. It has cost many tens of lives already and sadly will probably cost many more before it can be put right. To my mind it is a story of dereliction of duty far graver than that perpetrated by the banks. They lost merely treasure and jobs, the MOD's Gross Negligence lost lives. It must be replaced forthwith in this vital responsibility, having reneged on it totally.