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Chinook: Zulu Delta 576 details the aftermath of the 1994 crash which killed 29 people
Chinook: Zulu Delta 576 details the aftermath of the 1994 crash which killed 29 people
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Chinook: Zulu Delta 576
BBC2, 9pm
Thirty years ago an RAF Chinook, call sign ZD576, crashed on the hills of the Mull of Kintyre, killing all 29 people aboard. A disaster by any standard, but one that hit the intelligence community hard and left the bereaved without satisfactory answers. The repercussions extended far beyond the devastation experienced by the families of those lost. Out of the 25 passengers, nine were senior army officers, ten were Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch officers, five were MI5 officers and one was a civil servant. A trip to a secure location for strategic talks had instead left a gaping hole in the British intelligence community at a