Dalek
Tucumseh's excellent research into the Airworthiness issues.
Thank you kind sir but “research” is perhaps too strong a word.
The regulations required (at the time) Boscombe, Controller Aircraft and ACAS, in turn, to declare the aircraft airworthy and fit for safe flight.
Boscombe and CA did not. Based on the same evidence, ACAS did. It remains unclear what independent trials he paid for in the few days between CA’s advice and him issuing the RTS, but I’m hopeful Lord Philip will ask for this basic part of the audit trail.
MoD have happily provided this information to quite a few on pprune, including the Mull Group many years ago, long before I ever joined the forum. Internal and external reports and audits too numerous to mention have confirmed this since the late 80s; some specific to Chinook. I simply reiterate what is well known, irrefutable fact. That the regulations were systematically ignored. That Boscombe’s advice was withheld from Users. That the senior Test Pilot’s experiences with the aircraft were withheld/not investigated. That “Essential” modifications (in a safety sense) were not progressed, never mind embodied and trialled. That the RAF took no corrective action despite the evidence in the BoI, AAIB and FAI reports. So many facts when so many claim there are none. So many people with a vested interest in them not being aired. (And if you want names, they wrote to the press in January!).