§ Mr. ArbuthnotTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the statement by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence in Westminster Hall on 27 June 2000, on the Chinook crash, that the pilots could and should have either turned away immediately or slowed down and climbed to a safe altitude, on what evidence he relied to establish, to the standard of proof required by the RAF, that at the relevant time(a) Flight Lieutenant Cook and (b) Flight Lieutenant Tapper could have turned away or slowed down and climbed to a safe altitude. [128555]
§ Mr. SpellarThe RAF Board of Inquiry found nothing that would have prevented the pilots from maintaining safe flight in accordance with Visual Flight Rules or Instrument Flight Rules.