Chinook crash probe ruled out

Jan 7 2010

The Government has poured cold water on hopes that a Chinook helicopter crash which wiped out much of Northern Ireland's intelligence community could be investigated again.

Defence Minister Baroness Taylor of Bolton said that it was not possible "to raise any hope" of a further inquiry into the 1994 tragedy despite documents that came to public attention this week casting doubt on the computer software in the helicopter.

An internal Ministry of Defence document written nine months before the Mull of Kintyre crash, which killed 29 people including 25 senior military, police and intelligence officers, said the engine control computer software was "positively dangerous".