Originally Posted by
tucumseh
The same lie was told on C130 XV179, when MoD claimed not to have known about ESF until after the crash. The Coroner was not amused when presented with MoD's own ESF specs dated 25 years earlier.
It is a distortion to say that the MoD lied over ESF. Whilst it exposed a massive gap in corporate knowledge it would be unfair to compare this to a deliberate lie - those that were asked simply did not know.
I do agree that the MoD and BoI president were inexcusably slow to react once the true facts became known during the inquest. There should have been zero delay in informing the coroner.