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I wasn't confusing airworthiness and servicability - it is MoD who constantly maintain they are one and the same.
The aircrew were not provided with an airworthy aircraft.
MoD has admitted, and the AAIB stated, ZD576 carried both defects and faults; and will not say what they were in the process of doing, or later did, about them.
One of the 5 signatories today was AMSO at the time - perhaps he'd care to explain the policy whereby his organisation cut funding to conduct such investigations.