Olive Oil:
.....but that does not mean they would not be reckless.
Indeed OO, and reckless they were, grossly reckless, criminally so perhaps. The pilots? No, not the pilots OO, the VSO's charged with the awesome responsibility of implementing the UK Military Airworthiness Regulations and thus ensuring that only airworthy aircraft are Released To Service for the Royal Air Force. Not only did they fail totally, stupendously and absolutely in that but they prevailed upon, even ordered, subordinates to do likewise. The result was a Grossly Unairworthy type, a Chinook HC2, tasked to carry these 25 security VIP's to Fort George. They never reached Fort George of course nor survived that doomed mission. Reckless hardly begins to describe such action I would suggest