Computer Weekly publishes full texts of leaked MoD documents damning Chinook Mk2 FADEC

Computer Weekly has acquired the full texts of the documents effectively buried by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and relating to the computer control system of the Chinook Mk 2 that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre on 2nd June 1994.

All 29 on board, including the 2 pilots, lost their lives.

Extracts from the recently leaked documents have been published by the BBC, the national press and by online media like ourselves.

But Computer Weekly has got hold of and published the entire documents, with helpful expert explanations on some aspects of their subject matter and commentary.

This gives us an insight into just how wrong – and worse – was the judgment of the two senior RAF personnel who decided, with total lack of evidence, to find guilty of gross negligence the two pilots who had not wanted to fly this aircraft, could give no account of the horror that befell them and were no longer there to defend themselves.

This is compulsory reading. The main document is numbing in the light it shines on the indescribable immorality at the heart of the MoD and the RAF. They had this information at least nine months earlier yet still insisted on this aircraft being flown on the day, carrying the most senior military and police intelligence personnel.

This also strips Gordon Brown of any remaining shred of a basis to claim the possession of a moral compass. He will have seen these documents, yet he has just refused to review the judgment passed on Flight Lieutenants Cook and Tapper.