Tucumseh
“not technically airworthy aircraft”
If you are so indifferent to safety, what airworthiness components would you be happy for MoD to ignore?
Being a practical sort of flyer, I have always thought that if the aircraft was deemed serviceable by the engineers, and more importantly by the crew for the task on the day, a design flaw that may make the aircraft "unairworthy" in some circumstance or other rather took second place.
I just cannot under any circumstances think of how a crew would accept an aircraft that they thought was unfit for the task.
Career above survival? - I don't think so.