.... can you provide current evidence (anytime this century will do) of ANY government individual being disciplined for 'refusing to make a false declaration'?
Unless I've greatly misunderstood, isn't the problem with all this that no-one has actually refused to make a false declaration, knowing that the order to make a false declaration is not treated as an offence, whereas refusing an order to lie is treated as an offence. I am given to understand that this extraordinary policy has been formally confirmed by several successive governments and is still in force.
I suspect that currently (and probably wisely) no-one is actually issuing such orders, therefore there is nothing to refuse, and anything to do with airworthiness is being quietly fudged.
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