Air Marshal Richard Garwood, head of the Defence Safety Agency, last year told MPs on the parliamentary defence committee investigating the safety of military training, that the MoD and the RAF in particular, had “far better [safety] processes in place” since a 2006 incident in which a Nimrod aircraft exploded over Afghanistan killing 14 crew members.
Pure hubris, given that maintaining a Safety Case, or even providing for one prior to Release to Service into the RAF, is clearly no longer official MOD policy.