Rigga:
The fact is there is no real "military airworthiness system" because no-one can argue with MOD/IPT decisions not to do anything
Whatever the reason(s), Rigga, Hercules, Nimrod, Sea King, Chinook Mk2 (?) suggest that you are indeed right. 60 deaths if you include Mull. 60 needless deaths in 5 avoidable crashes. UK Military Airworthiness desperately needs to be wrested from the MOD and placed in a separate and independent MAA. Similarly the woeful record of RAF/RN BoIs in not discovering why these aircraft crashed and what must be done to avoid recurrences means that Accident Investigation should be placed with a separate and independent MAAIB. Only when all this is done can we slowly claw our way back to a position of avoiding avoidable accidents and properly investigating ones that are not avoided so they in turn may be avoided in future. All that is not to wrap our aircraft, aircrew and pax in cotton wool, but to use them in a military way rather than as being simply lost for that purpose.
Great programme, well done Angus!