Aircraft Board of Inquiry reports

[Andy Saunders]

Just curious.

Do you know why TNA refused to answer you written questions under FOI?

It seems to me that the Freedom of Information Act is increasingly a mis-nomer, since it is being used more and more as a reason not to provide any freedom of access to information. We are increasingly hearing about cases where information that includes names of casualties are being witheld.

There seems to be a degree of apathy, if I may say so, amongst researchers (particularly the UK based ones) who need to be beating on official doors and lobbying MPs etc to get this material released - especially the material that has long been promised for release to TNA but where an "excuse" has now been found to hold up and possibly prevent that release.

Anyone who has tried recently to get anything from the AHB will know that there is almost a paranoia about releasing anything anymore. This is a paranoia that borders on a deep suspicion, it seems, of anyone who asks for such information.

The whole situation is distasteful and wholly unsatisfactory.