Winchcontrol:
Brian will I'm sure answer any questions posted towards him....
Thanks for the straight from the horse's mouth info, WC. As for your invitation above, well here goes for nothing as they say:
Brian, what is the aim of the Mull Group now? Do you merely want to see the unjust and outrageous findings of Wratten and Day struck from the record of Rick and Jon, or do you want to leave a more lasting legacy in their name? It seems to me that this thread has shown, perhaps even more strikingly than the Hercules or Nimrod ones, that the UK Military Airworthiness Authority (the MOD) deliberately flouted its own Regulations by pushing the Chinook HC2 into service despite specialist advice that it was unairworthy and should be grounded. This was not an aberration but par for the course, indeed I suspect many more accidents to those and other fleets will merely confirm that tragic reality if, like in this case, one dug deep enough. What the solution is will be the preoccupation of much worthier souls than we, no doubt. My two penneth of course is to take airworthiness provision out of the MOD entirely into a separate and independent MAA. Others may differ. The important thing is to start the ball rolling now. It must succeed and when it does it would be a fitting epitaph to the crew of ZD576. Do you agree?