Fitter I agree with your diagnosis, the catch is that JP has to accept it also, but that is his misfortune. The diagnosis by tucumseh of JP's post #5301 does not agree with JP's proposition that his itemised points are simply incredible, for they have been shown to be essentially the truth, more denial working there I'm afraid. What it does do is to show clearly that if we want the dreadful cost of the Chinook, Sea King, Tornado, Hercules and Nimrod accidents, that killed 62 people and that all had airworthiness deficiencies, not to be repeated ad infinitum then the imperative is to return full airworthiness provision to the UK Military Airfleet. The proposed means of doing that, the "Independent within the MOD" MAA, will not work. It is a turkey. It will only work if it becomes an "Independent outside the MOD" MAA. That is the challenge now. Cameron may well restore the reputations of the deceased Chinook Pilots, he should, but he must also reform the monstrous carbuncle that is the MOD, and start by making the MAA separate and independent of it.
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