Author Topic: The Mull of Kintyre Chinook helicopter crash mystery 1994  (Read 599 times)

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Offline Steve_uk

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The military helicopter was carrying anti-terrorist personnel from Northern Ireland to a security conference in Scotland thirty-one years ago. All twenty-nine on board perished. Different explanations have been expounded for the cause of the crash.

Mysteriously last year the government sealed Ministry of Defence records for a further seventy years. https://youtu.be/Giyw0p8EhL0
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Offline Roch

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Re: The Mull of Kintyre Chinook helicopter crash mystery 1994
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2025, 08:28:AM »
Other notable more recent helicopter / plane deaths: president of Iran and that Russian mercenary guy who allegedly threatened Putin. I bet there's been a few over the years. Fritz Todt in WWII. All probably have a taint of suspicion attached.

I remember this Steve, was it it bad weather?

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Re: The Mull of Kintyre Chinook helicopter crash mystery 1994
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2025, 08:37:AM »
Other notable more recent helicopter / plane deaths: president of Iran and that Russian mercenary guy who allegedly threatened Putin. I bet there's been a few over the years. Fritz Todt in WWII. All probably have a taint of suspicion attached.

I remember this Steve, was it it bad weather?
Yes, it was the mist rolling in from the sea, to quote a famous Paul McCartney song. It was a terrible tragedy. An ex-helicopter pilot and member of the House of Lords in the video blames gross negligence on the part of the pilots. Others are not so sure, and point to a software failure which affected a test run in Wilmington, Delaware some years previously.