29 people were killed when the Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994 newly discovered Ministry of Defence documents have further doubts on the cause of the crash of Chinook helicopters on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 transformed.The papers received by the BBC, suggest, there was official concern about the airworthiness of the RAF fleet of Chinook two years earlier.
It is assumed that they never responsible airworthiness being process were shown to the officer for the aircraft.
Twenty-nine killed on the flight from Belfast to Inverness.
You contain 25 Northern Ireland's most senior intelligence experts and four special forces crew.
Mr Alexander Philip position is up to you in the cause of the crash and is due to report to the Secretary of defense in the summer.
The MoD and a spokesman for Mr Philip's review said it would "inappropriate" to comment at this time.
Never on all previous checkpoint in the accident, including the deadly accident investigation have been made available, the BBC understands the documents.
1992 Setting up a the RAF Chinook airworthiness review team, led by a Wing Commander technicians, light of the concerns about security and maintenance, the papers show.
The subsequent report said that the effectiveness of the aircraft as a whole had made five previous crashes more than six years in question, "Management and maintenance".
Experts believe that the paper shows that "systemic weaknesses" the blame for a RAF Nimrod crash in Afghanistan in the year 2006 in the MoD before the 1994 Mull of Kintyre crash rooted been can and would have been a factor in this accident.
'Secret'A new independent report, written by aviation experts, now submitted was, Mr Philip review which ensures this view.
Captain Ralph Kohn, one of the authors, told the BBC: "If we read it we were impressed by the parallel that found between our report and what found but secretly kept the RAF itself had."
Activists, who say the 1992 documents prove the two pilots of Chinook, flight should never have lieutenants Jonathan Tapper and Richard Cook was responsible and should be deleted now.
Of the in August of the same year, the Chinook airworthiness review report (diagram) stated: "since entering RAF service in the year 1980, has been the Chinook HC MK 1 dogged insufficient configuration problems control, publications and system unreliability."
", Has been the Chinook maintenance staff as a"Cinderella"of the RAF fleet."
"Five accidents in the past six years, and the serious incidents such as unwanted flying control movements in question have brought the effectiveness of the entire management and maintenance of the [A380]."
The report goes on some of the accidents, including one in the Falkland Islands in February 1987 detail that "pitched nose down about 300 [91 m] and influenced the ground, killing the occupants."
FLT lt Cook, links, and flt lt Tapper were blamed for the crashThe reason it says "never fully found."
The papers talk of a "wide range of Chinook airworthiness issues present HC MK1 and the future MK 2 Chinook."
It was a MK 2 helicopters in the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 fell.
The MoD had the updated version of the aircraft engineers in documents described in the last year as "positively dangerous" also on board the much criticised FADEC software.
The FAI and original RAF Board investigation not assign blame for the Mull of Kintyre crash.
'General pattern'But in 1995 two RAF air marshals debt then the pilot for "gross negligence".
The air marshals - Sir William Wrattan and Sir John day - are believed to of Mr Philip and his Panel have made in the past few months in question.
Sir Donald Spiers was controller aircraft officials in 1994 and the MoD to have 2 Chinook is the certificate of airworthiness for the MK.
Capt. Kohn, said: "I would have thought that he had signed it according to this report see, I only describe it as irresponsible could."
In a statement, Sir Donald said that he was not prepared, Mr Philip's particular review in crash comment.
However, he said the chart report not relevant was the MK 2 aircraft airworthiness, because it was concerned with the MK 1 Chinook and helicopter service was written two years before the updated entered.
Continue reading the most important storywe are talking about problems to return in 1980, and probably earlier "end quote Captain Ralph Kohn independent report author air Commodore John Blakeley has continued for the judgment against the pilots who be set aside."
He said it was "very surprising" the chart report was not designed for the attention of the RAF Board member request.
But he added that it was a "general pattern".
"It is part of a series of documents that we have now seen, in my view the Board of the request would come to a different conclusion may have caused have and we would check 'we don't know' financial statements on the judgment of"gross negligence"move officers by one created habendie started", the fight against, "he said."
In 2009 a very critical report by Sir Charles Haddon-Cave in the crash of the RAF Kinloss-based Nimrod in Afghanistan responsible "systemic weaknesses' within the MoD and accused victims to safety, to reduce costs.
Capt. Kohn said that the current document has shown that many other accidents can be caused by airworthiness standards.
"You realize when you talking the chart report, problems to return in 1980, and probably earlier" he added.
"We could find examples of similar mistakes and errors and omissions." "We are talking a Hercules, the Pumas had many different aircraft in the RAF, the crashes and flaws."
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