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**Skynet** · 15-05-2008, 07:42

Afghan crash Nimrod should never have flown, RAF chief admits
May 14 2008

A SPY plane which blew up in Afghanistan killing 14 men should not have been cleared to fly, an RAF chief admitted yesterday.

Air Commodore George Baber told the inquest into the deaths of the servicemen on the Nimrod plane that the hazard which caused the explosion should have been tackled earlier.

He revealed it had been identified by the RAF and BAE in 2004, two years before the disaster.
More on the link
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/sc...6908-20416945/

**dante242** · 15-05-2008, 07:46

Who if any will fall on their swords for this.....no one I suspect

**rockpile** · 15-05-2008, 07:53

I suppose that when Broon and Govt ministers go to war zones for their photo opportunities, they travel by RAF aircraft.

**box-of-frogs** · 15-05-2008, 08:20

Hindsights a wonderful thing.

**rockpile** · 15-05-2008, 08:25

Originally Posted by box-of-frogs

Hindsights a wonderful thing.

You are right. It is quite reasonable to identify a serious fault in anything mechanised and not repair it for two years.

**box-of-frogs** · 15-05-2008, 08:28

Originally Posted by rockpile

Originally Posted by box-of-frogs

Hindsights a wonderful thing.

You are right. It is quite reasonable to identify a serious fault in anything mechanised and not repair it for two years.

And the chances of it happening were assessed as 'improbable'.

**rockpile** · 15-05-2008, 08:30

Originally Posted by box-of-frogs

Originally Posted by rockpile

Originally Posted by box-of-frogs

Hindsights a wonderful thing.

You are right. It is quite reasonable to identify a serious fault in anything mechanised and not repair it for two years.

And the chances of it happening were assessed as 'improbable'

.

Would you drive your car with a fuel leak?

**MrPVRd** · 15-05-2008, 09:00

Some very knowledgable people are discussing this on Pprune.

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...242005&page=27

**box-of-frogs** · 15-05-2008, 09:08

Originally Posted by rockpile

Originally Posted by box-of-frogs

Originally Posted by rockpile

Originally Posted by box-of-frogs

Hindsights a wonderful thing.

You are right. It is quite reasonable to identify a serious fault in anything mechanised and not repair it for two years.

And the chances of it happening were assessed as 'improbable'

.

Would you drive your car with a fuel leak?

Probably not, but then again i don't fly in planes that do, nor fix them. Maybe planes leak fuel all the time? I don't know. People far more knowledgeable in plane fixing decided it was improbable that it was a risk. Hence hindsight.

**gijoe** · 15-05-2008, 09:13

Originally Posted by box-of-frogs

Hindsights a wonderful thing.

...and so is ragging the frame so much you have no time to do deep maintenance whilst reducing the amount of crews that fly it whilst reducing the number of ground engineers to maintain them whilst taking on more responsbilities whilst operating in 2 of the friendliest areas of the world with a limited number of frames that are nearly 50 years old.

It could have happened many times.