Eight unserviceable Chinooks, the ‘wrong’ software and the 1994 crash on Mull...
We ran a recent article on the Ministry of Defence (MOD) admission that eight Boeing Chinook Mark 3 helicopters ordered in 1995, delivered in 2001 and now costing us £422 million have not yet seen...
View ArticleMull of Kintyre campaigners call for new Defence Secretary Hutton to clear...
New Defence Secretary John Hutton has been immediateyl asked by campaigners to clear the names of Flight Lieutenant Jonathan Tapper and Flight Lieutenant Rick Cook, pilots of a Chinook helicopter that...
View ArticleScottish Government Minister and Argyll’s MSP, Jim Mather, supports campaign...
Argyll & Bute MSP and Scottish Government Minister, Jim Mather, has issued a statement supporting the approach to new Scottish Secretary, Jim Murphy, by campaigners seeking to clear the names of...
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Hutton refuses to clear Chinook pilots Tapper and Cook of ‘gross negligence’...
Pilots Jonathan Tapper and RIck Cook died in 1994 along with their high level intelligence and police passengers. The Chinook helicopter they were flying from Northern Ireland to Inverness crashed into...
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New evidence revealed as Mull of Kintyre Campaign Group look at a judicial...
For Argyll reported very recently that Defence Secretary John Hutton has refused to overturn the finding of gross negiigence against two pilots killed along with their passengers in the crash of their...
View ArticleDes Browne: very unusual retiral statement from a former Defence Secretary
Des Browne, the Westminster politician who represents Kilmarnock and Loudoun has announced that he is standing down at the next General Election.Browne is the man who found himself carrying a double...
View ArticleMoD knew Chinook software was ‘positively dangerous’ BEFORE 1994 Machrihanish...
In what ought to be a criminal offence, the MoD knew 9 months before the fatal incident in Argyll, described below, that the software governing the engines of the Chinook Mark 2 helicopter was...
View ArticleAngus Robertson & Jim Mather’s response to MoD Chinook revelations
SNP Westminster Leader and Defence Spokesperson, Angus Robertson MP, has hit out at the MoD after fresh evidence emerged suggesting the Mull of Kintyre Chinook disaster may have been caused by a...
View ArticleMcGrigor gets Conservative Party commitment to Independent Inquiry into 1994...
Recent revelations have shown that the Ministry of Defence knew for nine months before the tragic 1994 crash, that the automatic engine control software – FADEC – in the Chinook Mark 2 was so...
View ArticleUpset as Brown said to have refused review of Kintyre Chinook crash
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend Bill Hewitt, is said to be angry and disappointed at recent news from London. Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has...
View ArticleComputer Weekly publishes full texts of leaked MoD documents damning Chinook...
Computer Weekly has acquired the full texts of the documents effectively buried by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and relating to the computer control system of the Chinook Mk 2 that crashed on the Mull...
View ArticleResigned: Defence Secretary’s finest moment was clearing Kintyre Chinook...
Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, has resigned following continuing controversy over his judgment in allowing a personal friend to become, unofficially, part of his professional ministerial...
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