It may be true in the Brave New World over which the MOD now presides, but it is the complete antithesis of the one that I left in 1973! The whole philosophy then was accident prevention. Each and every incident was reported and depending on its severity became either the subject of immediate remedial action or at the very least another part of a data base that highlighted weak points for similar action. Above all though Airworthiness was achieved and maintained by continuous audit. as illustrated by tucumseh. Now it would seem most of that Flight safety system has been swept away by the bean counters and we're back to the attitude that "S**t happens, so?". Well so 29 people die unnecessarily, that's so.