Are we not missing the elephant in the room here. Had the aircraft captain, a military officer with all the associated military ethos associated with such a profession, confessed ALOT earlier as to the circumstances then all this baggage of cultural, endemic behaviour across the AT/AAR fleet been avoided. Plain and simple he screwed up and lacked the moral fibre/PQ's/OQ's to admit it until the evidence was overwhelming. End result; the rest of the AT/AAR fleets are now tarred with the same brush and will be subject to arcane, long screw driver, morale sapping over sight to prevent this "sort of thing" happening again.