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In a previous post I explained the process by which MoD is informed. I'd lay money they were.
Things have indeed changed over the years. Not the process itself; that is still mandated. But nowadays it simply isn't funded and no-one is trained in its use. The last time I was asked to talk to an IPT about it (i.e. maintaining the Build Standard and Safety Case), in 2002, almost to a man they shouted "Waste of money"; because that is what they had been taught. The exception was an old lag who had worked in, surprise surprise, Directorate of Air Armament. And the only procedural Defence Standard laying down what to do was cancelled about 5 years ago, without replacement. Implementation must be very fragmented today.
The SI seem to have asked the PTs about a warning issued in 1991. The PTs, a new name for IPTs, didn't exist then. They will say, truthfully but disingenuously, "We don't have it". But that is not the same as "Martin Baker didn't provide it" - which is not actually claimed in the report. It has been implied and inferred; and MoD is quite happy with this. They asked the wrong people. What I can't understand is MB's silence. My guess is, because MoD do not operate a closed loop, there is no evidence of an acknowledgement of receipt; so they (MB) have been advised to say nothing.
Personally, I've been round this buoy before, on Mull of Kintyre. In about 2005 I asked a question via my MP. Minister told him my question was "Too technically difficult" and that MoD had no staff with the competence or knowledge to answer it. (A hell of an admission, but what this actually meant was their "Mull Team" was by now admin staff, and they were under instructions not to open the Box called "airworthiness". Their default position was denial). That involved a similar scenario - a document trail that should have existed between Company (Smiths Industries in that case) and MoD which would debunk one of MoD's main claims on MoK. My reply, via MP, was to give them the name, address and phone number of the guy at Smiths who would have the document. MoD toppled. As I've said before, they have form in these matters.