An RAF Chinook helicopter which ploughed into the Mull of Kintyre with the loss of 29 lives may have hit the ground at well over 150mph, an inquiry heard yesterday. A cockpit instrument which registered a ground speed of 147 knots' (about 176 mph) was found, the accident inquiry at Paisley, Strathclyde, was told.
The inquiry - into the death of the four man RAF crew, 10 RUC officers, nine British army intelligence specialists and six MI5 officers - on June 2nd 1994, has been told that the aircraft was climbing nose up when it hit the ground.
