For those who missed the item, it can be found at 01.35.45 with the Min Def (Kevin Jones) response at 02.46.35 on:
BBC iPlayer - Today: 02/09/2009
The point is that the report on Military Accident Investigation (ie BoI's) by Chief Air Accident Inspector William Trench was done in 1986! It found that BoI's had outlived their usefulness, that they achieved only mediocre standards by complete novices and were subject to interference by Senior Officers. Somewhat prescient given the subject of this thread some 8 years later? The 31 deaths that Angus Stickler mentions are from the Hercules (10), Nimrod (14) and Sea King (7) accidents. It is my belief that the airworthiness related death toll should be at least 60, ie should include the Chinook Mull accident (29).