caz:
....but apart from that there was no hint of anything amiss with the Aircraft prior to the fatal sortie
and apart from the fact that, in common with all its sister Chinook HC2's, it suffered from known and identified serious engine and flight control airworthiness deficiencies, eh caz? Amazingly that was not "found" by the BoI, perhaps because it was by design not looking for it! How you can stand full square by this scandalous BoI, let alone the AMs' bizarre finding, I find quite incomprehensible caz. The truth of this cover up has to come out before the whole MOD airworthiness farrago and the RAF tendency to not investigate aspects of accidents that reflect badly on that same farrago and CoC issues is laid bare, which must happen before future avoidable accidents can indeed be avoided. I have addressed you on the Puma accident thread and finish with the same mantra. Self Regulation does not work and in aviation it kills!
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...merged-13.html