Vecvec:
Military aviation has 1 priority and that is to kill the enemy. Whilst killing the enemy we may crash and kill some of our crews. That is accepted.
If that were all that is being discussed here we would be on common ground, vecvec. Of 60 lives lost in 5 aircraft; Chinook (29), 2 Sea Kings (7), Hercules (10) and Nimrod (14), the only enemy presence was possibly as insignificant as one AK47 round (into the Hercules unprotected fuel tank). Each of those accidents had significant Airworthiness issues that were discounted or ignored by their respective BoI's. Whether or not they were the basic cause, a contributory cause, or incidental to the accident is not the point. Those issues would have been investigated by professional accident investigators at the time rather than being addressed long after the event thanks to external pressure or to still be the subject of rancour.