Should Regulators and Investigators always be Separate and Independent of Operators?
In the UK the above arrangement is holy writ in Civil Aviation. In contrast however the MOD Self Regulates and Investigates itself, formerly via itself and its subsidiary Services, latterly via its subsidiary MAA and MAAIB. In PPRuNe Military Forum Airworthiness Related Fatal Military Air Accident threads 62 deaths alone are accounted for. The real total is probably much higher.
Should not the successful separation of Regulation and Investigation into the independent CAA and AAIB be emulated by their military cousins as a matter of extreme urgency?