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Old 5th May 2010, 09:23
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Chugalug2
 
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Robin Clark:
This did appear to be politically and financially expedient for the government at the time , and also directed embarassing questions away from other core issues....such as whether the helicopter was really 'fit for purpose' at the time of the flight.....
I think many here are united in their willingness to ascribe base motive to the government of the time and indeed to all those both before and after! That, with respect, is not the point. Just as the noble Lord Adonis has defended his own and his government's reaction last month to the Icelandic "Krakatoa" (I'm avoiding naming it just as does the Beeb!) as down to the Met Office's advice (denuded of it's spotter plane getting a fab new paint job), so too can it and its predecessors blame the Air Marshals in both the MOD and RAF for accepting an aircraft into service that they knew to be 'unfit to fly' (ie unairworthy) rather than 'unfit for purpose' as you put it.
As flipster says no-one, including the Messrs Wratten and Day, know why this aircraft crashed and your theory, for that is all it is, is as valid as any other. If you are right then this is a case of pilot error, for if 'garbage in' was indeed in-putted into the nav computer for whatever reason then it was their job to realise that they were getting 'garbage out'. It would not of course be a case of their Gross Negligence, that charge would more properly made against the Air Marshals various that colluded knowingly to force this Grossly Unairworthy type into RAF service mere months before this tragic accident.
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