I was out of the country when Eggman's BOI findings were published - but I recall reading from open source that there was a fair amount of criticism of the 22 Gp staff in there. Things like an MAA audit had exposed flaws such as lack of a safety register....which simply hadn't been put right by the time of the accident.
We are now talking about a different tragedy with a different hero sadly no longer with us. However:
Two questions from my cockpit as it were. If the same were to be true here would that warrant a prosecution? In the case of a Hawk T1 (I think) flown by RAFAT would the chap in the dock be AOC 22 Gp - who would be what I would know as the Aircraft Operating Authority...which might have changed since I went abroad to the Duty Holder?
I think that as a community we can't throw up our hands in horror at Nimrod and Sea King AEW airworthiness cases yet recoil from a potential prosecution in other cases where the supervisory chain may have been at fault.
As always - matters will run their course and the truth will out, we hope.
Last edited by orca; 16th Mar 2013 at 15:22.