Sat Feb 02, 2019 3:29 pm
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I’m also with many on here in that I won’t be jumping on the outrage bus to sign this petition. Flt Lts Tapper and Cook were peers of mine as a fellow Aircrew Junior Officer. I too agree that the call of ‘negilence’ was wrong as it could not be proven that something went wrong with the helo - however, in all likelihood they got caught out below Safety Altitude and collected the Mull.
Just why we need to keep all of the original evidence at great expense to the taxpayer is quite beyond me. We lost many good people that day, no-one did it deliberately and we will never prove whether they made the wrong decisions or whether the mighty Wokka went wrong. I believe that the records should be digitised and kept - that is all. Otherwise, we will end up keeping stuff for every tragedy and we’ll soon need a bigger island! (The last bit said in jest, but there are plenty of other tragic events where all of the evidence is not kept anymore - Lockerbie anyone?)
Just why we need to keep all of the original evidence at great expense to the taxpayer is quite beyond me. We lost many good people that day, no-one did it deliberately and we will never prove whether they made the wrong decisions or whether the mighty Wokka went wrong. I believe that the records should be digitised and kept - that is all. Otherwise, we will end up keeping stuff for every tragedy and we’ll soon need a bigger island! (The last bit said in jest, but there are plenty of other tragic events where all of the evidence is not kept anymore - Lockerbie anyone?)
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