BN:-
You don't report that, do you?.
Not confirming that you are now aware, having been made aware? Well no, and if that is indeed the point of cuefaye's and CM's posts then I apologise. In return might I ask if it was then still the custom to submit an SOR/MOR if such a discovery was made? Is it the procedure to do so now?
Somewhere along the line awareness of a problem at the sharp end (and it doesn't get much sharper than sitting on one of Mr MB's products) should have translated itself into a modification to the Mk10 seat. It didn't, and thus became the contributory cause of Flt Lt Cunningham's death (which was
the accident). A classic case of one hole in one slice of cheese lining up with the next (the over tightened shackle bolt, which was the cause of
the accident).
With all this awareness, why did this SI not highlight the lack of action to deal with this problem, and why could the shackle bolt have been so inappropriately over tightened after so many years of this seat being in service?
Again, if I now understand CM correctly, if awareness of such irregularities existed, to the extent that Sim checks routinely involved "traps" set into the top as well as in the bottom of the seat, how could this killer bolt have slipped through the system and gone unnoticed by all and sundry? That is why this accident happened and it is brushed off by the MOD as "MB never told us about it". Given past form who can really believe them?