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Old 15th Jun 2009, 08:52
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I dearly hope that these accidents do not see the end of cadet flying.
The Air Cadet organization will survive and cadet flying will continue. It will just take time and patience to sort the issues, and a heck of a lot of skillful reassurance (in due course) of the parents who may now see the AEF activity as too dangerous for their children to take part in.

The first accident was relatively straightforward to explain as a "one in a million event that is so unlikely to happen again that AEF flying is so inherently safe that you shouldn't really worry about the safety of your children in our charge".

Sadly, this latest accident - following on as closely as it did - makes that argument extremely difficult to justify to people who will now see our previous reassurances about the safety of their loved ones as "not to be trusted". All we can do is trust in the effectiveness of the investigations (and they will be the most thorough investigations that you could imagine) and, depending on the findings and recommendations, use our skills to build the bridges again to regain the confidence of those parents and - indeed - the cadets themselves.
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