Tuc
How, exactly does the un-airworthy installation of HISL cause to aircraft to crash?
It was turned off.
The previous fit would also have been turned off.
The pilot may also have been wearing incorrect underpants. The Observer may have had a non cleared crayon.
To say that this makes the accident airworthiness related is b@llocks.
In the regime of flight they were in, the bagger and a pinger were operating in exactly the same way.
And I have both Mk6 and 7 in my logbook.
Incidentally, you know that after all this palava, they decide to leave HISLs on the Mk7?
So the process did not tick the boxes, but the bit of kit has a clean bill of health.
So if they had followed the correct process, the HISL would have been fitted and the accident would still have happened.
The military now lives in a world where if you need something done quickly and effectively, you step outside the military framework and get it cleared the civilian route!!
We deployed a UOR to Afghan totally bypassing Boscome because it was the only way to get the capability to theatre inside a decade and a billion dollars..
How crazy is it that the civvys can pretty much glue anything they want to an airframe and the military cannot!!