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Mystery of how an RAF helicopter crashed and killed all on board 30 years ago

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The exact cause of the crash remains a mystery 30 years on.

The RAF Chinook helicopter crashed in the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, and killed 25 passengers and four crew members It has been 30 years since 25 of the UK’s top intelligence experts – including those from MI5 – were killed in an RAF helicopter crash. The RAF Chinook helicopter went down on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, on June 2 1994, in foggy conditions killing all 29 on board, including four crew members.

The loss of so many top level Northern Ireland intelligence officers in one stroke was a huge blow to John Major’s Conservative government, ‘temporarily confounding’ its campaign against the IRA.

 

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