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03/07/2001
LORDS INQUIRY LOOKS INTO CHINOOK CRASH
A new House of Lords committee set up to investigate the 1994 Chinook crash, chaired by Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, met for the first time on Tuesday July 3.
The helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre claimed the lives of all 29 people on board the Chinook who were travelling from Northern Ireland to Scotland. People on board included members of military intelligence and RUC Special Branch.
Lord Jauncey, a former senior Scottish judge is to chair the new House of Lords five-man inquiry team.
An original RAF board of inquiry blamed the pilots saying they were guilty of gross negligence. The RAF concluded that flight lieutenants Richard Cook and Jonathan Tapper were guilty of ‘negligence’. However, many of the families have questioned this finding.
House of Lord peers voted for the all-party inquiry into the crash in April after the matter was raised in the Lords by former foreign minister Lord Chalfont who has championed the cause of the dead pilots.
This committee is not expected to establish why the crash happened, but rather consider the decision to use the term ‘negligence’. Their report is not expected to be published until early next year.
(AMcE)
The helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre claimed the lives of all 29 people on board the Chinook who were travelling from Northern Ireland to Scotland. People on board included members of military intelligence and RUC Special Branch.
Lord Jauncey, a former senior Scottish judge is to chair the new House of Lords five-man inquiry team.
An original RAF board of inquiry blamed the pilots saying they were guilty of gross negligence. The RAF concluded that flight lieutenants Richard Cook and Jonathan Tapper were guilty of ‘negligence’. However, many of the families have questioned this finding.
House of Lord peers voted for the all-party inquiry into the crash in April after the matter was raised in the Lords by former foreign minister Lord Chalfont who has championed the cause of the dead pilots.
This committee is not expected to establish why the crash happened, but rather consider the decision to use the term ‘negligence’. Their report is not expected to be published until early next year.
(AMcE)
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