lj101:-
Apart from the fact that Bubble has never been in the RAF or indeed the British Military (according to himself on a previous thread).
Thanks for that, which no doubt BW will wish to confirm. The obvious lesson for me to learn is "Don't assume, check"!
In mitigation I would proffer the nature of his post (rear seat non pilot aircrew incident) on a Military thread about a very Military accident, though on the other hand he did preface it by saying that it was slightly off topic. So apologies for getting him wrong and using him as a stick with which to beat RAF Flight Safety with. Anyone wish to offer another instead?
As to this thread not being an appropriate one for comment about the limitations of Military Air Accident Investigation, it joins many others that were also the tragic subjects of Fatal Military Air Accidents. The Naval Baggers mid-air, the Blue on Blue loss of a Tornado, the bringing down of a Hercules fitted with unprotected Fuel Tanks, the loss of a Nimrod fitted with an unairworthy Fuel System, and of course the Mull Chinook.
62 lives lost, yet each of those 5 threads declared an inappropriate place to air the idea that they were all related, because they were investigated by the operator that suffered the accident. In many of those accidents NoK were lied to, and were most energetic subsequently in their search for the truth. That should have been the point of the various BoI's in the first place, shouldn't it? Or doesn't it quite work like that?