Nutloose
I agree. I always thought that those who destroyed such records (to conceal embarrassing truths) got away with it precisely because it was so unthinkable that nobody guarded against it. After one fatal accident in 2003, the BoI report prompted such panic there was wholesale destruction of files. You can see the same panic seeping through this case. Maintenance records? They are money in the bank. I think MoD doth protest too much in the letter to Coffman.