Unbelievable arrogance!
"No investigation into a serious accident can ever answer every question with
cast-iron certainty".
"In a case where there were deceased aircrew, the relevant departmental guidance required the reviewing officers to be in
no doubt whatsoever that their negligence was a cause (although not necessarily the sole cause) of the accident."
It would appear that there is a fundamental conflict in the statements above.
There was no cast iron certainty of what caused the accident, and that was needed before the crew could be accused, and found guilty in absentia, of gross negligence.
The BoI failed to find the crew guilty due to insufficient evidence, technical investigation was unable to rule out mechanical failure, the House of Lords found that the Air Marshals were wrong in law, and now we are asked to accept that 2 Brass Bound Blimps, and Buff Hoon know best!
If this travesty is permitted to stand it will mark a low point in British Military Justice, and it will forever brand the two Air Marshals as cowards for taking the easy road, and far from occupying the moral high ground they claimed, have shown themselves as being completely lacking in any sense of responsibility for the well being of the servicemen and women under their command.
And for the Secretary of State for Defence; he deserves to be treated with the same contempt which he has displayed towards the august members of the House of Lords Committee whose legal acumen is beyond reproach.
This surely is a blunder of such magnitude that it now represents more than the initial campaign to clear the reputations of the crew, and is now a struggle of where does the power of justice reside?
