HC Deb 19 July 1995 vol 263 c1353W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the loss of an RAF Jaguar in the Adriatic sea in June. [35635]

Mr. Soames

A Jaguar GRIA on detachment from RAF Coltishall to Gioia del Colle was engaged in a routine training sortie on 21 June when it crashed into the Adriatic sea off the Italian coast. The pilot ejected safely and sustained only minor injuries. A RAF board of inquiry has been convened and a summary of its findings will he placed in the Library of the House in due course.