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Old 9th Aug 2009, 09:24
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Chugalug2
 
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Barbie, you may well be right that military "wings" of both the CAA and the AAIB are the way to go. There are obviously financial and manpower implications for both organisations as well as security considerations for the military. It won't be easy to do given the economic situation anyway, but somehow or other it has to be done because the provision of airworthiness to military aircraft is a broken system and, while with the MOD, irretrievably so.
I see you still insist on having your cake and eating it. You acknowledge that the MOD's position, as revealed by tucumseh is that the aircraft may well not have been under control after the waypoint, but insist that in your opinion it was clearly CFIT! It is that arbitrary form of military accident verdict that this thread has pointed up for the 280 pages that you deride. If it takes another 280 for the penny to drop that if such arbitrariness is unacceptable in civil aviation it is equally so in the military, then so be it. I find it depressing that those with a professional appreciation of this accident can hold such unprofessional opinions. Sorry, but there it is!
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