Airborne Aircrew:
The winners could be every pilot and other crewmen that fly RAF aircraft and every passenger that ever dares to set foot on one.
Good post AA. You sum up the situation with enviable clarity. I endorse everything you say, merely adding in a far more mundane manner that the only way that we can expect the win that you mention above is to have an independent MAA and MAAIB entirely separate from the MOD. If that is not the outcome then we do not win.