Walter
Thank you.
My aim in noting MoD's acknowledged failure to implement their own airworthiness regs is not to claim this was the sole cause of the accident, but to highlight the fact that there were many underlying contributory factors which, in a legal sense, would introduce reasonable doubt. That is, falling well short of the requirement of "absolutely no doubt whatsoever". Such contributory factors are the ever increasing "holes" in the model so excellently described by flipster a while ago, and they are seldom if ever explored in detail by BOIs or Coroners. And certainly not by MoD. The devil is in this detail
As the Board of Inquiry said;
“There were two entries in the Supplementary Flight Servicing Register that had potential relevance to the accident: Serial 2, SI/CHK/57 on the security of the DECU connectors…….”
To me, that introduces doubt. Perhaps someone could advise how the Reviewing Officers dealt with this when overturning the "verdict", as they must surely have refuted this statement.