A FORMER law lord is to chair a House of Lords inquiry into the RAF's worst peacetime accident in which 29 people -- including a Bolton man -- were killed when a Chinook helicopter crashed.
Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle will head a five-strong select committee into the 1994 crash on the Mull of Kintyre.
Major Anthony Hornby was one of those who died when the Chinook Mark Two helicopter, carrying senior anti-terrorism officers from Scotland to Northern Ireland, crashed.
The inquiry, expected to report in January, is likely to investigate a previous conclusion that the pilots had been negligent.
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