From today's
Witney Gazette:
Judge Advocate Alan Large said the board ruled Townshend had deliberately deleted photographs from his camera because he feared they would make him look unprofessional, although he said there was no ban on using a camera in the cockpit.
He said "This was not a momentary lapse of concentration. Your eye was well off the ball."
Astonishing. How can someone in such an authoritative position be so apparently ignorant of the normal behaviour of any normal person who uses a digital camera?
Judge Large also said the MoD was subject to a £14M contract to AirTanker for the aircraft they could not use for this (13 day grounding) period.
MoD pays over £1M per day for their leased PFI nonsense, no matter whether the aircraft fly or not....
Military justice is clearly an oxymoron!