Hampshire family of Chinook crash victim to find out if Judicial Review application will be granted
The 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash killed 29 leading service personnel
The Hampshire family of a victim in the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash is continuing their fight for answers today - as they attend the Court of Appeal.
Victim families of those killed in the Mull of Kintyre crash will be in London today to find out the results of their Judicial Review application.
Sue Angus' husband Gary Sparks died in the crash and has been campaigning with daughters, Lucy and Esme, ever since.
She said: "We finally got this Judicial Review tomorrow which is an appeal to have a full Judicial Review into the circumstances surrounding the crash.
"Obviously, we're concerned that the helicopter was flown when it was declared unairworthy, and positively dangerous one day.
"Then the next day, somebody, and we'd like to know who, ordered it to fly and that then put 29 people on board an aircraft that had been declared dangerous and not fit for purpose.
"We just feel that we ought to know exactly what went on and who decided that."
Families say they'd been left unaware of the full circumstances surrounding the crash until a documentary was released in 2024 which revealed documents regarding the crash were being kept locked away for 100 years.
Ms Angus added: "We never had access to those papers, and we just carried on with our lives thinking, well, we were told that it was pilot error, and that was it.
"So now that this evidence has been revealed 30 years later, we want another full investigation into the circumstances."