We have to ask though if these two incidents should drive the whole policy of RAF equipment purchase and use.
When asking such a question it is necessary to acknowledge one simple fact. The aircraft were not airworthy due to quite deliberate policy. This was not an oversight. The failures were notified well in advance and a conscious decision made to make false declarations that the regulations had been followed.
One cannot compare these illegal acts with the accidental loss of servicemen in road traffic accidents. There are exceptions of course. Snatch is one. Declared unfit for purpose in Northern Ireland in the 90s, and a replacement fully endorsed and funded (then cancelled), this was conveniently ignored by politicians and VSOs when declaring it fit for purpose in the, one assumes, infinitely more benign environments of Iraq and, especially, Afghanistan. Funny how that fact is never mentioned. MoD worked hard to hide that one as well.