Call For New Inquiry Into RAF Tornados Crash

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The Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Moray, Richard Lochhead, is to meet prosecutors to make a fresh call for a fatal accident inquiry into a crash involving two RAF Tornados.

The jets from RAF Lossiemouth were on a training flight at the time of the collision which left three airmen, Flight Lieutenant Hywel Poole, Squadron Leader Samuel Bailey and Flight Lieutenant Adam Sanders, dead in July 2012.

Scotland's prosecuting service, The Crown Office, decided in 2015 that it would not launch an inquiry citing the investigation and what it called a "very detailed report" from the Military Aviation Authority carried out in the aftermath of the incident.

Moray MSP Richard Lochhead says many issues remain outstanding. He and campaigners, who claim there's new evidence, will press the Crown Office to hold a fatal accident inquiry - the equivalent of an inquest in England and Wales.