RAF Chinook crash victims’ families ask Andy Burnham for review of disaster

Families of the twenty-nine servicemen killed when an RAF Chinook helicopter crashed on Scotland's Mull of Kintyre in 1994 are pressing Prime Minister Andy Burnham to end what they call a 'cover-up culture' and order a fresh, independent review of the disaster. The Guardian reports the aircraft went down while flying from Northern Ireland, and relatives say new evidence has since come to light that warrants fresh scrutiny. As the paper tells it, the families want that evidence formally examined as part of any renewed inquiry.

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