To pinpoint the extracts, the item is at 01.35.45 and Def Min (Kevin Jones) response is at 02.46.35 on:
BBC iPlayer - Today: 02/09/2009
John Blakeley's post is very pertinent. With the media's wish to run a "good story" and the MOD's wish to confuse, it is very important to keep one's eye on the ball. The biggest omission from this item though were the 29 deaths on the Mull of Kintyre, IMOH. That would bring the headline figure in Angus Stickler's piece, of 31 lives lost in airworthiness related deaths since this 1986 report, to at least 60. I fear it is probably far far more. No matter what revisions to UK Military Air Accident Investigation have been made in the meantime, the original findings of mediocre standards achieved by complete novices (sic) still strike me as being close to the mark. Rather than importing qualified AAIB investigators to advise BoI's it would surely be more effective to import qualified service operators/maintainers etc to advise a fully professional Military Air Accident Investigation (by a joint civil/military AAIB?)