Sorry to be a pain. I am an occasional pruner but have not read much over the last couple of years. I find it really sad that this thread seems to be plodding away without direction. Many of the recent threads are going over old ground of 2 years ago. Please don't get me wrong, John Tapper was a student of mine at Shawbury. He was very professional and a delight to teach and I have always been of the opinion that he and his crew have been the scapegoats for an accident that was possibly due to flying an aircraft that might not have been "fit for purpose". I doubt that we will ever know. I did all the recommended requests on PPrune years ago ergo writing to my MP, writing to that idiot defence secretary Hoon all to no avail. Is there anything practical we can do rather than just go over old ground repeatedly? John and his co-pilot deserve their names to be cleared.
Tuck.