Stuck on a case statement

Hopefully this is not to trivial for you experts but here goes
I am trying to run the below code - Its been a long while since I have done any SQL programming and need some help here
thanks in advance
select ETIC
     (CASE
     WHEN SUBSTR(AIRCRAFT.ETIC, 0, 1) = 'P' OR AIRCRAFT.ETIC IS NULL
THEN
     (CASE
WHEN (SUBSTR(AIRCRAFT.ETIC, 0, 1) = 'P') THEN
('P+' || LTRIM(SUBSTR(AIRCRAFT.ETIC, 6, 3), '0'))
ELSE AIRCRAFT.ETIC
END)
ELSE (TO_CHAR(TO_DATE( ('20' || AIRCRAFT.ETIC), 'YYYYDDDHH24MI'), 'DD-MON@HH24MI'))
     END)      
     "ETIC"
from AIRCRAFT;

There may possibly be experts here, but few are actually clairvoyant.
The problem is...?
Does it have anything to do with SQL Developer? If it is a general Oracle SQL question it should be posted PL/SQL.

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