flipster:
Yes, great news. But why was it leaked now....?
Indeed. No-one who has followed this disgraceful scandal over the years will have any doubts about the depths to which the MOD can stoop. Rather than suspecting that they are the victims of this leak, my bet would be that it has come direct from Main Building. If this Judicial Inquiry follows the well trodden path of finding in the pilots' favour it may also follow the well trodden path of being given scant regard by the MOD. We have already heard on Radio 4 the response of the CAS at the time, that they are unqualified people who do not understand aviation or airmanship, that it doesn't matter if the "aircraft went wrong" (sic), the pilots had broken "the rules". His pay-off was to ask rhetorically, "Do you think that the RAF would have blamed its pilots if there were any other reason than aircrew error?" To which I can only ask you all, "Well do you?".
Radio 4 PM (starts at 0450):
BBC iPlayer - PM: 09/07/2011