What the records say
- When
- 2 Jun 1994
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 55.31° N, 5.79° W
- Description
- helicopter crash in Scotland
- Deaths
- 29
1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash
Helicopter crash in Scotland
On 2 June 1994, a Chinook helicopter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), serial number ZD576, crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, in foggy conditions. The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts. The accident is the RAF's fourth-worst peacetime disaster.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в Шотландии потерпел крушение вертолёт Boeing CH-47 Chinook, погибли 29 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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