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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Nimrod fleet 'not airworthy and should be grounded'

A coroner presiding over the inquest into the death of 14 UK servicemen has said the Nimrod plane they died in has "never been airworthy".

The RAF and army personnel were killed above Afghanistan in September 2006 when their spy plane crashed.

Andrew Walker, assistant deputy coroner for Oxfordshire, delivering his verdict into their deaths – which amounted to the heaviest loss of for the armed forces in a single incident since the Falklands war – is calling for the entire fleet to be grounded.

But the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is under no obligation to comply.

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