On one thing we seem to be in agreement at least, Waddo. Your differentiation between Air Accident Investigations and RAF BoI's is well made and one that I fully concur with.
As to turning this thread into a Kintyre discussion, that was never my intention. It was being proposed that RAF BoIs were/are inherently superior compared to the SA one under discussion. I have attempted to propose otherwise. Indeed other threads on this forum have not been solely "Kintyre discussions" but have revealed that there is something fundamentally corrupt in the UK Military Air Accident Investigation system, even under the supposedly "independent" MAAIB. Until the MAAIB is truly independent of the MOD and the MAA, the investigation of military air accidents remains unreliable to say the least. Hence the inappropriateness of slagging off other nations' accident reports, I would contend.
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