Point taken, Two's in. But both outcomes are a necessity. Once you decide that finding the cause of an accident, and hence avoiding future ones, is merely an option rather than a vital part of aircraft operations you slide down an ever steepening slope to aeronautical doom. It seems that with this BoI and others that is exactly the path that the RAF has adopted. That is why it cannot be entrusted with that responsibility any longer and why that must be moved to a separate and independent MAAIB, so that future avoidable accidents can again be avoided. If the only outcome to this campaign is the reversal of W&D's finding then the reason for it having been made in the first place will never emerge and the ambivalent attitude of the RAF to Accident Investigation will prevail. That would mean future lives being lost needlessly IMHO. That is what is at stake here, and why we must have an independent MAA and MAAIB.