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Sunday, October 29, 2006

Fuel leak blamed for Nimrod disaster

NimrodAn RAF Nimrod spy plane that crashed in Afghanistan last month killing all 14 men on board broke up in mid-air after a fractured fuel line set off explosions, an official inquiry has found.

The Nimrod MR2, which was providing intelligence for a Nato operation against Taliban fighters west of Kandahar, had just refuelled at 22,000ft.

Sources have disclosed that an RAF board of inquiry’s preliminary report has found that the fuel line fractured either as the Nimrod MR2 was being refuelled or shortly afterwards.

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