I have been reading this subject for a while, with my interest purely from a military engineering perspective, regarding the RAF trying to implement the MAA Regulatory Articles (RAs), in particular RAs 4970 to 4974 Airworthiness Review (AR) regulations.
I have been wondering whether what has happened within the glider fleet was during the implementation of Regulatory Article (RA) 4973: military airworthiness review process, MRP Part M Sub Part I, although it does appear that there must have been major airworthiness failures within the reports that required the fleet to be grounded.
Should of said that it could also be, if evidence from reports raised on other aircraft is anything to go by, that the personnel carrying out the reviews did not know what they were looking at, as there was not much direction from those further up the chain of command and some did not actually fulfil the RA requirements to carry out the reviews, allegedly.
https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...73_Issue_2.pdf
Apologies if these regulations have been muted before, as I have missed them.