26 Years ago, on 2nd June 1994, Chinook Mk2 ZD576 crashed on the Mull of Kintyre killing all 29 on board. I can do no better than to quote this from Amazon :-
Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, 2 June 1994. 29 dead.
RAF Air Marshals blamed the two pilots. Their position was that the onus of disproving negligence was on the deceased.
When the pilots were eventually cleared in 2011, Ministers and the Crown Office decided that was the end of the matter – true cause and culpability was now irrelevant. Why? Who benefitted?
The clues lay in what MoD had concealed. The families, Fatal Accident Inquiry and Parliament were lied to. For example, all were told that evidence removed from the crash scene before investigators arrived had been examined and could not have caused any harm. This outright lie was later exposed when documents MoD had denied the existence of were uncovered. This and other fresh evidence is examined here for the first time.
The ends of justice have been defeated by those charged with administering it. Once again it is left to the public to publish the facts.
ALL PROCEEDS TO CHARITY
A new Kindle book has just been published. I believe it will be followed by a paper back edition in due course. Long time members will recall the bitter fight fought here to restore the pilots' reputations. That was only the start. It led to a campaign that revealed a scandal involving certain senior RAF Air Officers subverting UK Military Air Safety and of the cover up of that by their successors that exists to this day.
The Inconvenient Truth : Chinook ZD576 - Cause & Culpability £3.99