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On 2 June 1994, a Chinook helicopter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), serial number ZD576, crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, in foggy conditions. The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts. The accident is the RAF's worst peacetime disaster. In 1995, an RAF board of inquiry ruled that it was impossible to establish the exact cause of the accident. This ruling was subsequently overturned by two senior reviewing officers, who stated the pilots were guilty of gross negligence for flying too fast and too low in thick fog. This finding proved to be controversial, especially in light of irregularities and technical issues surrounding the then-new Chinook HC.2 variant which were uncovered. A Parliamentary inquiry conducted in 2001 found the previous verdict of gross negligence on the part of the crew to be 'unjustified'. In 2011, an independent review of the crash cleared the crew of negligence.

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References

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  2. "'Clear Chinook two' ex-PM urges". BBC News. 13 May 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3710403.stm. 
  3. "Select Committee on Chinook ZD 576, Part 3: Factual Background." UK Parliament, 2002; retrieved: 3 November 2006. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200102/ldselect/ldchin/25/2504.htm#a9
  4. "Q&A: Chinook crash inquiry". BBC News. 3 June 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1800804.stm. 
  5. O'Farrell, John (14 June 2000). "Dark rumours surround Chinook crash". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/northernireland.comment. "dark rumours abound. The loss of ten senior RUC intelligence officers, nine army intelligence officers and six MI5 officers on the eve of the 1994 IRA cessation was, for some, propitious. ... Some loyalists believe that the intelligence officers were deliberately "taken out" for "knowing too much" about the people the government would have to deal with in a post-conflict Ulster." 
  6. Thomas, Andrew (10 July 2000). "Top Secret US plane 'caused Chinook crash'". The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/10/top_secret_us_plane_caused. "a third explanation for the crash has now come to light: that a top secret hypersonic US plane, codenamed Aurora and which is reportedly capable of flying at up to 20 times the speed of sound, created a massive jet wake into which the helicopter flew, causing the crew to lose control." 
  7. McDonald, Henry (3 June 2014). "Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash: Why only a formal apology and fresh investigation can begin to assuage this wrong". Belfast Telegraph. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/mull-of-kintyre-helicopter-crash-why-only-a-formal-apology-and-fresh-investigation-can-begin-to-assuage-this-wrong-30322860.html. "Conspiracy theories from the right, preceding the wilder conspiracies of the 9/11 'Truthers', have tried to suggest that the crash was deliberate; that the Government somehow needed to weed out a number of hardline securocrats in the intelligence community who were opposed to doing a peace deal with the IRA" 
  8. "Campaigners want Chinook review". BBC News. 9 October 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7660363.stm. 
  9. House of Commons 2011, p. 9.
  10. Lydall, Ross (4 January 2010). "Sir Malcolm Rifkind: Wrong to blame crash on Chinook crew". London Evening Standard. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23790759-sir-malcolm-rifkind-wrong-to-blame-crash-on-chinook-crew.do. 
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  13. Lister, Sam (16 January 2008). "MoD to consider new Chinook claims". Belfast Telegraph. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article3342423.ece. 
  14. "Gross negligence verdicts to stand". BBC News. 8 December 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7772125.stm. 
  15. "Fresh doubts over Chinook crash". BBC News. 4 January 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8438659.stm. 
  16. Lewis, Page. "Please shut up about the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash." The Register, 4 January 2010. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/mull_of_kintyre_chinook_dead_horse/
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  18. "Apology as Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash pilots cleared". BBC News. 13 July 2011. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-14130867. 
  19. The relevant evidence to Lord Philip is here https://sites.google.com/site/militaryairworthiness
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  27. House of Commons 2011, p. 24.
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  30. House of Lords 2002, p. 7.
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  33. House of Commons 2011, p. 76.
  34. House of Commons 2011, p. 72.
  35. House of Commons 2011, p. 69.
  36. "Clear and present danger: why CW refused to give up on Chinook". Computer Weekly. 7 February 2002. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2002/02/07/185089/Clear-and-present-danger-why-CW-refused-to-give-up-on.htm. 
  37. "Defence Minister misleads MPs over Chinook accident". Computer Weekly. 29 June 2000. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2000/06/29/174615/Defence-Minister-misleads-MPs-over-Chinook-accident.htm. 
  38. House of Lords 2002, p. 23.
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  40. Collins, Tony (25 October 2001). "Top Chinook test pilot reveals unease over engine software". Computer Weekly. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2001/10/25/183320/Top-Chinook-test-pilot-reveals-unease-over-engine-software.htm. 
  41. House of Commons 2011, p. 22.
  42. House of Commons 2011, p. 71.
  43. House of Commons 2011, pp. 7–8.
  44. House of Commons 2011, pp. 71, 84–85.
  45. Hill, David. Their Greatest Disgrace – The Campaign to Clear the Chinook ZD576 Pilots. Nemesis Books, 2016. ISBN:1-52620-446-0.
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