Squidlord:
An "audit of the airworthiness" of the current Chinook fleet will not necessarily tell us anything about that aircraft's airworthiness 15 years ago
Given that all this is unchartered territory I would suggest that the MAA will have to assume that the airworthiness of every fleet is compromised unless proved otherwise. Thus a full audit from cradle to grave (which it seems the Nimrod is already going to) is called for. You cannot "audit the airworthiness" of the current Chinook fleet without conducting a full historic audit, otherwise such an audit will be built on sand and be worthless. The whole point about what has emerged in these pages, in the Nimrod Report, and elsewhere is that documentary falsification of the airworthiness of entire fleets has been endemic. That is why there is to be an SIB investigation. If this process is fudged then the UK Military Airfleet can never be called airworthy.