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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
By Tom Jeffreys

Former defence secretary calls for inquiry into 1994 Chinook crash tragedy

Sir Liam Fox (centre) arrives to hand in a letter to 10 Downing Street joined by some of the families affected by the Chinook helicopter crash (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

Sir Keir Starmer should launch an inquiry to determine the cause of the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash in which 29 serving military personnel died, former defence secretary Sir Liam Fox has said.

Sir Liam, who has been working with the Chinook Justice Campaign, said new evidence suggested the Ministry of Defence and RAF may have misled two previous inquiries into the 1994 tragedy over the Mull of Kintyre in south-west Scotland.

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