Welcome To the Nimrod Review
This is the website for the independent review into the broader issues surrounding the loss of the Royal Air Force Nimrod MR2 aircraft XV230 in Afghanistan on 2 September 2006.
The Terms of Reference for the Review were set out by the Secretary of State for Defence, the Rt Hon Des Browne MP, on 13 December 2007.
The review is being conducted by Charles Haddon-Cave QC. Mr Haddon-Cave has wide experience of aviation and safety matters, having been instructed in the major aviation and marine inquiries in England for the last 20 years.
Terms of Reference
In light of the board of inquiry report:
· To examine the arrangements for assuring the airworthiness and safe operation of the Nimrod MR2 in the period from its introduction in 1979 to the accident on 2 September 2006, including hazard analysis, the safety case compiled in 2005, maintenance arrangements, and responses to any earlier incidents which might have highlighted the risk and led to corrective action;
· To assess where responsibility lies for any failures and what lessons are to be learned;
· To assess more broadly the process for compiling safety cases, taking account of best practice in the civilian and military world;
· And to make recommendations to the Secretary of State as soon as practicable, if necessary by way of interim report.
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