No one comes out of this with any credit. A complacent regulator who can't decide what his own rules mean, and permits what at best could be described as a Laissez-faire approach to compliance and record keeping. Maintenance organisations that seemingly Rationalise their practices after the event and sign stuff of against core documentation they don't have. Defects in primary instruments not recorded. No follow up to engine over speeds. Engine out of hours, preservation not done, ejector seats maintained at home and fitted with life expired components. Pilots approved to maintain certification for solo jet display based on flying a piston engine plane and follow my leader in a jet. The obvious conclusion (which Martin Baker seem to have reached) is that there isn't the money or competence out there to keep old fast jets flying to an acceptable level of safety. Sad, but seems to be inescapable.