CAMPAIGNERS are to meet senior Crown Office lawyers this week to push for a fatal accident inquiry into an RAF Tornado crash that killed three people in 2012.
Flight Lieutenant Hywel Poole, 28, Flight Lieutenant Adam Sanders, 27, and Squadron Leader Samuel Bailey, 36, died in a mid-air crash between two jets over the Moray Firth in July 2012.
An investigation was carried out by the Military Aviation Authority but local MSP Richard Lochhead is leading calls for an FAI, saying “many issues remain outstanding”.
A law change in 2016 meant crashes like the one over the Moray Firth would automatically now result in a fatal accident inquiry.
In 2015 the Crown Office considered the case but said an FAI would only repeat the MAA inquiry.
Campaigners say there is new evidence to be considered.
Mr Lochhead said: “We’ll present to the Crown Office what we believe to be new evidence, and make the case for the issues to be properly investigated in a fully transparent and open manner.
“There is a big difference between an FAI in Scotland and the internal inquiry that was conducted by the Military Aviation Authority.
“While the MAA inquiry fulfilled an important role, there should be a fatal accident inquiry as well.”
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