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Whether or not the risk was ALARP during the 2000s is not relevant to its status today, given that we can't turn back the clock and retro-fit the system. The current Duty Holders can only play the cards they've been dealt.
"Not me Chief, I'm airframes!"; your quote exactly encapsulates the other worldliness with which the MOD does Air Safety. The current duty holders are part of the same system that said in effect "No" repeatedly to CWS, and future Duty Holders will no doubt disassociate themselves from this one in turn when they say "No" to, for instance,
all FJs being fitted with CWS.
It is the 'Stove Piping' that tuc mentions that is the most insidious part of the MOD machine. The same man can undermine the safety of different fleets, and thus be a threat to them all, but a subsequent fatal accident to one of them is dealt with in isolation, or at most seen as involving that fleet alone. The rest have to wait patiently for their 'remote' accidents to happen in turn. Predictable and predicted, but not at the MOD!