Chinook pilots 'won't be cleared'

Dec 9 2008

Two RAF pilots will not be cleared of blame for the Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre 14 years ago, it has been reported.

The BBC said findings of "gross negligence" against the men by an RAF Board of Inquiry would stand after Defence Secretary John Hutton decided a review of the case had uncovered no new evidence.

All 29 people on board the helicopter - including 25 leading figures involved in Northern Ireland security - were killed when it crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland in bad weather on June 2, 1994.