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Craig Meighan

More than 25,000 sign petition demanding answers on 1994 Chinook disaster

The wreckage of the RAF Chinook helicopter which crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 (Chris Bacon/PA) - (PA Wire)

More than 25,000 people have signed a petition demanding answers around the 1994 Chinook disaster as the families of the 29 dead accuse the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of a “cover-up”.

A total of 25 senior intelligence experts and four special forces crew were killed when an RAF Chinook ZD576 crashed on the Mull of Kintyre en route from RAF Aldergrove in Northern Ireland to Fort George near Inverness on June 2 that year.

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