Legal challenge over 1994 Chinook crash should continue, High Court told

Families of those who died in the 1994 Chinook crash outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday (Doug Peters/PA) - (PA Wire)

A legal challenge against the Ministry of Defence (MOD) over the 1994 RAF Chinook helicopter crash should be allowed to proceed, the High Court has been told, amid concerns over the airworthiness of the aircraft.

Twenty-nine serving military personnel died when the Chinook HC-2 helicopter crashed into the Mull of Kintyre in south-west Scotland on June 2 1994, with a 2011 inquiry concluding that an initial decision to blame the pilots was incorrect.