Finally, in the light of an unhindered review of the original investigation, the two pilots originally blamed for the 1994 Chinhook crash on the Mull of Kintyre have been posthumously cleared of any wrong-doing , and their families have been issued formal apologies:-
The only reason they were blamed in the first place was internal politics. The RAF came under intense pressure because the crash of one of their Chinooks had caused the deaths of a large number of counter-terrorism specialists at a critical point during the Troubles in Ulster. The pilots were guilty before the Board of Inquiry convened, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Bill Wratten, the then commander of RAF Strike Command who headed the Board, complied and his official report found the pilots responsible. I'm glad the fullness of time has allowed them to be absolved, but the RAF shouldn't have placed all the blame on two of its fallen pilots in the first place.
