Independent Report Criticises MoD for Death of 14 British Servicemen
28/10/2009
A lawyer has called for immediate action to be taken after 14 British servicemen were killed in Afghanistan. The incident, which the Ministry of Defence has been heavily criticised for, happened when a Nimrod aircraft crashed near Kandahar in Afghanistan.
The crash claimed the single biggest loss of life of British forces since the Falklands War after the Nimrod aircraft exploded in mid-air, killing all 14 servicemen on board.
The Ministry of Defence was criticised in the findings of Mr. Haddon-Cave QC, after a 22-month review into the disaster, for putting the servicemen’s safety at risk in order to cut costs.
Andrew Tucker, the head of personal injury at law firm Irwin Mitchell and an armed forces claims specialist l said: "The Reports findings are genuinely shocking and it re-raises the issues of safety highlighted at the Coroner's inquest in May last year.
"We welcome this independent report and the recommendations and hope that it goes some way to ensuring that lessons are learnt so that such a tragic and unnecessary loss of British service personnel is never allowed to happen again in the future."
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