melmoth:-
What 'far worse' incidents have there been?
You used the word "incidents", not tuc! The MOD has consistently lied about the systemic problems that beset UK Military Air Safety and still do. They have even lied to a widow, telling her that a Release to Service had not been issued to the aircraft type that her husband died in, claiming that none at all then were, let alone an illegal one that obscured the fact that the aircraft was Grossly Unairworthy from its aircrew! If the subject of this thread was indeed an isolated incident, then whatever caused it can indeed also be isolated, and future repetition avoided. You cannot avoid future airworthiness related fatal air accidents if the system that is supposed to prevent them is systemically broken. That is what has happened to UK Military Air Safety. I would say that is potentially far worse than any isolated "incident", no matter what or who caused it.