The last two posts illustrate clearly that UK Military Air Safety is broken to the core. The very points that you make CM show just how the MAAIB is constrained by the MAA, which is constrained by the MOD.
Aircraft Accident Investigations should reveal the root cause of accidents. This one didn't come within a mile of that. Nothing of what tuc informs us was even hinted at. An aircraft escape system that lacked its own Safety Case? You couldn't make this stuff up.
The MOD nor any of its Service, Regulatory, or Investigative subsidiaries should be allowed to oversee Military Air Safety, for it is plainly not safe in their hands. Enough is enough, the MAA should be sistered to the CAA, and the MAAIB to the AAIB, with both of them led by civilian DGs. The words whelk stall come to mind!