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| − | On 2 June 1994, an RAF Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in Western Scotland, during a flight from RAF Aldergrove outside Belfast.<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200102/ldselect/ldchin/25/25we21.htm Chinook ZD 576 - Written Evidence], House of Lords, 31 January 2002.</ref>
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| − | The passengers included senior figures from RUC Special Branch, [[MI5]], the Army and the Northern Ireland Office.
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| − | The loss of the cream of Northern Ireland intelligence officers was a blow to the Conservative Government of the time, temporarily confounding the anti-IRA campaign.
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| − | The crash posed some embarrassing questions - such as why the UK's top anti-terrorist personnel flew together.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1800804.stm Q&A: Chinook crash inquiry], BBC News Scotland, 3June 2004.</ref>
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| − | ==Victims==
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| − | [[Richard Allen]] | [[Christopher John Biles]] | [[Dennis Stanley Bunting]] | [[Desmond Patrick Conroy]] | [[Richard David Cook]] | [[Martin George Dalton]] | [[Philip George Davidson]] | [[Stephen Davidson]] | [[John Robert Deverell]] | [[Christopher John Dockerty]] | [[John Charles Brian Fitzsimons]] | [[Graham William Forbes]] | [[Robert Patrick Foster]] | [[Richard Lawrence Gregory-Smith]] | [[William Rutherford Gwilliam]] | [[Kevin Andrew Hardie]] | [[John Stuart Haynes]] | [[Anthony Robert Hornby]] | [[Anne James|Anne Catherine MacDonald or James]] | [[Kevin Michael Magee]] | [[Michael Bruce Maltby]] | [[Maurice McLaughlin Neilly]] | [[John Turbitt Phoenix]] | [[Roy Pugh]] | [[Stephen Lewis Rickard]] | [[Gary Paul Sparks]] | [[Jonathan Paul Tapper]] | [[John Tobias]] | [[George Victor Alexander Williams]]<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200102/ldselect/ldchin/25/25we21.htm Chinook ZD 576 - Written Evidence], House of Lords, 31 January 2002.</ref>
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| − | ==External Resources==
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| − | *[http://chinook-justice.org/ The Campaign For Justice For The Pilots of ZD576]
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