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I THINK Chugaz is saying that although many of us think the crew c*cked it up in spades the Gross Negligence bit is not provable. Pilot error?
I am sure Chugaz will clarify what looks like a bit of a sweeping statement on our collective behalves.
the one thing that seems to unite those who have posted here is that the finding was totally unjustified
I am sure Chugaz will clarify what looks like a bit of a sweeping statement on our collective behalves.
Spin? Spin? Perhaps it is you who should explain yourself VSF, rather than I. Given that the finding of Gross Negligence required a certainty of "No Doubt Whatsoever" are you saying that you share the Air Marshals' confidence in it? It isn't enough to think that they were Grossly Negligent, it has to be shown beyond all doubt, which is what baston is saying and for which I thank him. He then goes on to poison the pill by calling my statement sweeping. I'm not sure if sweeping is better or worse than spinning, my instructor never covered that bit of the syllabus. Might explain a lot! As ever a golden opportunity to expand on my previous post. When I speak of Air Marshals, the RAF Provost Marshal, and of the Royal Air Force it is because they are the most involved in this affair and thus my prime concern. I am the first to admit that things have changed greatly since I served however. I have no doubt that senior officers of the other services, serving and retired, and civilians are implicated also. Whether the investigation is also similarly mixed, ie conducted by "Purple Police" I neither know nor care. The evidence and the witnesses are available to whoever is charged with following the one and questioning the others. If all that ends up with no other names and no further action then the mud will be stuck firmly and immovably to the honour of the Royal Air Force. Do we care?
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I am sorry if "Sweeping" offended you - it is a word with many meanings and I offer some below to put your mind at rest that no hurt was intended
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Take your pick!!
I am sorry if "Sweeping" offended you - it is a word with many meanings and I offer some below to put your mind at rest that no hurt was intended
163 words for "sweeping": absolute, across the board, across-the-board, aleatoric, aleatory, all-comprehensive, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, all-out, all-pervading, amorphous, blanket, blobby, blurred, blurry, born, broad, broad-based, cataclysmic, catastrophic, catholic, chance, chancy, chaotic, clean, clear, coasting, compendious, complete, comprehensive, confused, congenital, consummate, debris, decisive, deep-dyed, diffuse, disordered, downright, dust, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, encyclopedic, exhaustive, extensive, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, flow, flowing, foggy, fuzzy, garbage, general, glide, gliding, global, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, insurrectionary, intensive, junk, large-scale, lax, liberal, litter, loose, nonspecific, obscure, omnibus, omnipresent, orderless, out-and-out, outright, over-all, overwhelming, panoramic, perfect, pervasive, plain, plumb, pure, radical, random, regular, revolutional, revolutionary, revulsionary, revulsive, rubbish, sailing, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, sheer, skating, skiing, skim, sledding, slide, sliding, slipping, slither, slithering, stochastic, straight, sweep, synoptic, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, tobogganing, total, transilient, trash, ubiquitous, umbrella, unclear, unconditional, undefined, undestined, undetermined, universal, unmitigated, unplain, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, unspecified, utter, vague, veiled, veritable, waste, whole, wholesale, wide, wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widespread, without exception, without omission.
Take your pick!!
Next Prime Minister commits to a review.
I received a letter today from the next PM.
In his letter, David writes:
In his letter, David writes:
(.......)
Although an extensive Board of Enquiry was conducted by senior RAF officers into the tragic loss of the Chinook, there have been a number of significant concerns raised about the findings of the Board.
As you may know, the Fatal Accident Inquiry held in Paisley, the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons and the House of Lords Select Committee, have all rejected the findings of gross negligence by the RAF Board of Inquiry against Flight Lieutenants Jonathan Tapper and Richard Cook.
Given the public concern about the Board of Inquiry findings of gross negligence against the pilots, the Conservatives believe that the matter cannot rest there. Accordingly, we have committed to undertaking a review if we win the forthcoming General Election, a move which is supported by the then Secretary of State for Defence, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, and the then Minister of State, James Arbuthnot.
(..........)
Yours sincerely,
David Cameron
Although an extensive Board of Enquiry was conducted by senior RAF officers into the tragic loss of the Chinook, there have been a number of significant concerns raised about the findings of the Board.
As you may know, the Fatal Accident Inquiry held in Paisley, the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons and the House of Lords Select Committee, have all rejected the findings of gross negligence by the RAF Board of Inquiry against Flight Lieutenants Jonathan Tapper and Richard Cook.
Given the public concern about the Board of Inquiry findings of gross negligence against the pilots, the Conservatives believe that the matter cannot rest there. Accordingly, we have committed to undertaking a review if we win the forthcoming General Election, a move which is supported by the then Secretary of State for Defence, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, and the then Minister of State, James Arbuthnot.
(..........)
Yours sincerely,
David Cameron
Last edited by BEagle; 5th Feb 2010 at 21:27. Reason: Sir Malcolm, not Sir Michael!
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Chinook crash questions continue
Because I expect that only few PPruners have seen a copy of my local newspaper, The Camberley News and Mail, I beg to offer hereunder the very slightly edited version of our ‘3 Fellows’ response to an article on RAF Chinooks that was published in last week’s edition. This response to the article was printed in to-day’s newspaper (5 February 2010).
The Editor - Camberley News and Mail
I refer to your recent article Chinook crash questions continue (Friday 29 January edition) which was a marvellous piece of reporting. I wish to support what Messrs Arbuthnot and Howarth said, but I am unable to agree with Armed Forces Minister Mr Bill Rammell’s statements about there not being any new evidence to lead the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to revisit the original RAF’s Board of Inquiry (BoI) findings. The aircraft was manifestly not ‘Airworthy’ and should not have been used for that final flight. This may not be "new" evidence to MoD, but only because it was withheld from successive inquiries; each of which, I suspect, would have found it damning confirmation of gross negligence in issuing the Military Airworthiness Certificates (Controller Aircraft Release (CAR) & Release to Service (RTS))and an abrogation of “Duty of Care" on the part of Senior Officers.
The unanswered questions are, why were the pilots charged with Gross Negligence based upon pure supposition with no actual facts, by the two senior reviewing officers who overturned the RAF’s own Board of Inquiry that could not apportion blame? Secondly, why was the aircraft released to Service whilst still not fully Airworthy?
Captain Ralph KOHN FRAeS
Regulatory Authority inspector and compiler of the Macdonald report (April 2000)
Captain Ron MACDONALD FRAeS
Qualified aircraft accident investigator (co-author)
Captain Richard KJ HADLOW FRAeS
Retired RAF Squadron Leader (co-author)
As an aside, I wonder why the Daily Telegraph did not print our reply to the letter written by the 5 Knights?
All we asked for was an airing before an impartial judge of all the evidence known, including some previously withheld.
Ralph Kohn
The Editor - Camberley News and Mail
I refer to your recent article Chinook crash questions continue (Friday 29 January edition) which was a marvellous piece of reporting. I wish to support what Messrs Arbuthnot and Howarth said, but I am unable to agree with Armed Forces Minister Mr Bill Rammell’s statements about there not being any new evidence to lead the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to revisit the original RAF’s Board of Inquiry (BoI) findings. The aircraft was manifestly not ‘Airworthy’ and should not have been used for that final flight. This may not be "new" evidence to MoD, but only because it was withheld from successive inquiries; each of which, I suspect, would have found it damning confirmation of gross negligence in issuing the Military Airworthiness Certificates (Controller Aircraft Release (CAR) & Release to Service (RTS))and an abrogation of “Duty of Care" on the part of Senior Officers.
The unanswered questions are, why were the pilots charged with Gross Negligence based upon pure supposition with no actual facts, by the two senior reviewing officers who overturned the RAF’s own Board of Inquiry that could not apportion blame? Secondly, why was the aircraft released to Service whilst still not fully Airworthy?
Captain Ralph KOHN FRAeS
Regulatory Authority inspector and compiler of the Macdonald report (April 2000)
Captain Ron MACDONALD FRAeS
Qualified aircraft accident investigator (co-author)
Captain Richard KJ HADLOW FRAeS
Retired RAF Squadron Leader (co-author)
As an aside, I wonder why the Daily Telegraph did not print our reply to the letter written by the 5 Knights?
All we asked for was an airing before an impartial judge of all the evidence known, including some previously withheld.
Ralph Kohn
Nothing new as far as I know Olive, just the same old outrageous situation that has existed for the last 15 years. As you so rightly remind us, the two reviewing officers based their findings on their opinions. What they based those on is immaterial, insomuch as they did not base them on incontrovertible facts beyond all doubt whatsoever, as they were required to given their finding. I presume that one of the things they did not base their finding on was the fact that the Aircraft's RTS and Airworthiness both lacked all credibility, to say the least.
Olive
1. They judged their own case, in doing so protecting senior officers who had knowingly fabricated the CAR/RTS (in that the act of issuing the documents clearly deceived the Users into thinking the regulations had been followed).
2. It is MoD who deliberately seek to confuse airworthiness and serviceability.
3. If the above officers had not conspired to withhold vital evidence from successive inquiries, the journalists would have had no need to report what is clearly in the public interest.
Evidence should now be re-examined in the light of recent events. In particular, the actions of Controller Aircraft and ACAS, and their staffs, who clearly failed in their duty of care; and those officials who for 15 years have systematically lied to conceal the truth.
At the moment, the only officer in these areas who comes out of this looking good is Capt Brougham RN, who wrote to his superiors in MoD(PE) BEFORE the crash imploring them to take heed of Boscombe's warnings (including "positively dangerous" software implementation and systems integration failures).
1. They judged their own case, in doing so protecting senior officers who had knowingly fabricated the CAR/RTS (in that the act of issuing the documents clearly deceived the Users into thinking the regulations had been followed).
2. It is MoD who deliberately seek to confuse airworthiness and serviceability.
3. If the above officers had not conspired to withhold vital evidence from successive inquiries, the journalists would have had no need to report what is clearly in the public interest.
Evidence should now be re-examined in the light of recent events. In particular, the actions of Controller Aircraft and ACAS, and their staffs, who clearly failed in their duty of care; and those officials who for 15 years have systematically lied to conceal the truth.
At the moment, the only officer in these areas who comes out of this looking good is Capt Brougham RN, who wrote to his superiors in MoD(PE) BEFORE the crash imploring them to take heed of Boscombe's warnings (including "positively dangerous" software implementation and systems integration failures).
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Olive Oil,
I agree with John Purdey. Well said, indeed.
The Reviewing Officers were entitled, as you say, to express an opinion. What there was no provision for, however, was the authority to substitute the findings of the President of the BoI for something of their own.
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Brian
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I agree with John Purdey. Well said, indeed.
The Reviewing Officers were entitled, as you say, to express an opinion. What there was no provision for, however, was the authority to substitute the findings of the President of the BoI for something of their own.
Kind regards,
Brian
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Brian. As has been pointed out many times before, the proceedings are not complete until the convening officer has reviewed them. How many times does this have to be said? With all good wishes, JP