Nimrod Accidents
I note that in the book Tony Blackman states, with regards to the XV235 accident, that;
"Significantly there was fuel in the bomb bay which suggests that, as before, there had been a large blow-off of fuel from No.1 tank"
Of course that was not the case, as the crew had seen the fuel spraying from a AAR fuel line coupling within the bomb bay onto the Bomb Bay heating mixing chamber. Having said that, what happened to XV235 could have happened to XV230, as I understand that a fuel coupling was changed during the EQ servicing prior to the accident. This line of investigation, along with a couple of others mentioned in the book, was never explored. Interestingly enough, bomb bay heating was isolated immediately after the XV230 accident and never switched back on again.
DV