Liability Risk and Insurance
‘Gross negligence’ in crash overturned
In 1994 a Chinook helicopter crashed off the Mull of Kintyre with the deaths of 29 crew and senior army personnel. Despite
findings by the original RAF inquiry and the Air Accident Investigation Branch that it was not possible to determine the cause
of the crash, a senior RAF review held the pilot and copilot guilty of ‘negligence in the gross degree’.