Thank you tuc as ever for the knowledge and expertise that sadly seems so lacking within the UK Military Airworthiness Authority itself these days. So, having identified one more tree in one more wood as infected with the unairworthiness virus, we must now turn to its neighbouring trees and find them infected also. Not only trees within this wood either, but in neighbouring woods, and no doubt in other woods too, as we trace this deadly canker throughout the whole forest of UK Military Aviation.
Words cannot fail us, dragartist, on the contrary we must speak out and testify to other shortcomings and actions that have suborned mandated process instead of implementing it. The MOD has always pigeon holed these tragedies as one offs, with one off remedies, be it to incorporate new systems such as ESF or to ground whole fleets such as the Nimrod Mk2. What they never do is to admit to widespread systemic failure of UK Military Airworthiness Provision, the extent and cause of which evaded the Haddon-Cave Report.
In short we have to do what Haddon-Cave failed to do and show that extent of failure and its historic causes. The latter have been well documented and discussed within this forum, they only need admitting to by the RAF High Command, for it is within that body that they can be mainly found. The former is where we go next, following tuc's post, and that would appear initially to be the AES IPT, the Hawk PT, the RTSA, and the Design Authority.
As to the RAFCAM HF experts, might I suggest they start looking at the actions of certain VSO's as from 1987 wrt financial shortfalls following disastrous policy changes, and the agreed remedial action to correct that by making 28% year on year cuts to Air Safety provision? Their knowledge of Groupthink would be invaluable in analysing blatantly illegal orders, deliberate obfuscation and deceit, the unjust laying of blame on juniors, even upon deceased JOs, and the ensuing denial and cover up by their successors to this day. Their testimony could then be handed to the RAF Provost Marshal, who might just be minded to view it as new evidence. You never know your luck!