ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 55110
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| Date: | Thursday 2 June 1994 |
| Time: | c. 18:00 |
| Type: |  Boeing Chinook HC2 (CH-47D) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force (RAF) |
| Registration: | ZD576 |
| MSN: | MA036/M7010 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1984 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 29 / Occupants: 29 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Mull of Kintyre, Scotland -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Aldergrove, Northern Ireland |
| Fort George, Inverness, Scotland | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Flew into rising cliffs of Bienn na Lice, near the Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse, Strathclyde in low cloud at high speed, killing all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts. It was the RAF's worst peacetime disaster.
An RAF board of inquiry in 1995 ruled that the cause was pilot error; on 13 July 2011 a new report cleared both pilots.
Sources:
1. http://mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5DF42860-16A3-43A1-B983-03C843531CBB/0/maas94_02_chinook_hcmk2_zd576_2jun94.pdf
2. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1994.htm
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Scotland_RAF_Chinook_crash
4. picture of wreckage: http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/history/aircraft/UK/ZD576/ZD576.html
5. http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240103971/Chinook-ZD576-exclusive-picture
6. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247259/1348.pdf
Dec-2018 : https://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/co-operation-on-kintyre-chinook-crash-welcomed-1-4849279
Media:
UK - Co-operation on Kintyre Chinook crash welcomed
— PLANES OF LEGEND (@PlanesOfLegend) 28 décembre 2018
Read more at: https://t.co/McBNEXqhra
In June 1994, the Chinook fell from the sky in thick fog on the Mull of Kintyre and killed 29 people. Among them were senior Army, RUC and RAF officials.https://t.co/McBNEXqhra pic.twitter.com/y75dI1vbkz
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Jun-2009 12:47 | Anon. | Updated |
| 07-Jun-2009 08:24 | Anon. | Updated |
| 18-Aug-2009 23:36 | Anon. | Updated |
| 11-Mar-2010 09:13 | TB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Jun-2010 08:14 | TB | Updated [Narrative] |
| 10-Jul-2011 04:44 | Anon. | Updated [Registration, Source, Narrative] |
| 13-Mar-2012 09:21 | TB | Updated [Time, Registration, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Jun-2012 06:29 | TB | Updated [Registration, Source] |
| 27-May-2013 22:59 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 22-Jul-2015 06:36 | Iceman29 | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
| 28-Dec-2018 21:15 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
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