The BBC states:
The report (written nine months before the crash by a senior engineering officer at the MoD Aircraft Testing Centre at Boscombe Down) concludes that the release of the Chinook Mk2 into service "cannot be recommended". It calls for a software rewrite, which did not happen.
The report was not included in the report from the original Board of Inquiry.
Yet MoD state
:"This latest information is from an RAF document; it was available to the Inquiry team and cannot be classed as new evidence."
It might well have been 'available', just as the
Encyclopedia Brittanica,
War and Peace or
Lady Chatterley's Lover were 'available'. But it does not appear to have been
made available, i.e.
presented to the Inquiry team, so is clearly important additional evidence.
Does anyone trust
any 'MoD Statement' these days?