Letter: Chinook plea

DEFENCE Secretary Liam Fox would give much pleasure if he would intimate a date for a public inquiry he promised the families of the pilots in the Chinook helicopter crash in Kintyre.

It is approaching six years since John Major and Malcolm Rifkind questioned the verdicts handed down by an internal inquiry. It found the two experienced pilots were negligent, though they had reported their lack of confidence in the aircraft's airworthiness.

The delay in holding a public inquiry only fuels the notion of a cover-up.

EJ Hart

Chapelacre Grove

Helensburgh