There is a reasonable chance that, when this story is aired out, there will have been some frank and direct internal discussion leading up to last night's decision, which has been made above the levels of the JSFPO and the Commandant of the Corps.
It would seem now that the finding of a root cause, followed by the approval of an RTF procedure and any inspection/remediation, will have to precede any flight operations. The UK deployment is not impossible but grows increasingly less likely by the hour.
Flight safety >
PR!