Ivan
"I have nearly crashed my car a few times but got away with it, never needed the airbag or seatbelt what a waste of money they were"
Poor example I think.
This is equivalent to actually rather than nearly crashing the car and not requiring those items.
If cars crashed all the time and the evidence showed no need for safety equipment, then we wouldn't all have them by law.
Bringing attention to an incident which required no Nimrod hardly helps the case for the requirement for Nimrod for SAR.