Daily Telegraph Weekend Magazine feature

Today, the Daily Telegraph has asked more searching questions about the Chinook crash files being unjustifiably sealed for 100 years. Unsurprisingly, the newspaper was fobbed off by the dissembling, deceitful, dishonest UK Ministry of Defence. 

But Martin Fletcher's excellent long read states many of the facts now known about the Chinook Mk 2's lack of airworthiness. It's why we are being forced to take legal action against the MoD. You can also read the article in next Saturday's glossy Telegraph Weekend magazine (August 16th) available from all good UK newsagents.

If you need any more persuasion that the MoD is covering up the facts, then read this section of the article.

The Telegraph sent the MoD a list of specific questions. It asked who took the decision to seal the documents, whether the defence secretary had approved, why the documents had been sealed for so long, why they could not simply be redacted and, lastly, whether they had been sealed to protect senior MoD or RAF officers who let the Chinook fly knowing it was not airworthy.

It took nearly a week of persistent enquiries to extract a response from the MoD: “Unfortunately, on this occasion we are unable to provide further information on this.”

Andy Tobias, whose father, Lt Col John Tobias of the Army Intelligence Corps, was killed, said: “The MoD has completely lost its moral compass. It has shown no honesty, no integrity, and it’s those values that all those men and women joined the MoD for.”

“I think we’ve been deceived and lied to,” says Lucy Sparks, who was two when her father, Major Gary Sparks of the Royal Artillery, was killed.

Please have a read, please share with all of your friends, and please encourage as many people as you can to sign our petition at change.org/JusticeForThe29.

(photo credit:Daily Telegraph - Heathcliff O’Malley)

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