tuc:-
Can't leave evidence of incompetence lying around.
Well you might possibly clear away the wreckage, whether it be scattered over Mull, Iraq, Afghanistan or wherever, it is true, but the wreckage of peoples lives blighted by the needless and avoidable loss of loved ones is permanent and indeed left "lying around" forever.
High time that responsibility for UK military airworthiness enforcement and the investigation of military air accidents be invested in an independent MAA and MAAIB, of both the MOD and each other.