bast0n:
My point with the quote was just to say that the operating of all these bits of kit that are introduced is always much the same, and whatever bit of kit you give someone the MoD/engineers/aircrew/et al will some how manage to cock it up at some time, somewhere.
Well the MOD sure managed to cock this one up, no doubt about it. A Fully Autonomous Digital Engine Control (FADEC) means just that, not only the primary but the back up control as well was digital, and controlled by code that was bestrewn with errors. It had arbitrarily caused run-ups, rundowns and shutdowns totally uncommanded by pilots. The BoI could have "discovered" that if they had chosen to call the Odiham Test Pilot to give evidence. They did not. I cannot but wonder how your homespun philosophy would have dealt with that if it were fitted to your Wessex in Borneo bastOn. Even the stopwatch, charts and furled umbrella might not have prevailed I suspect. That is what pulse1 meant I think, and I have to concur.
Did the FADEC cause this accident? I don't know, though you and others seem to.