News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 year ago
The families of 14 British servicemen killed when a Nimrod spy plane crashed in Afghanistan heard the cockpit recording of the aircraft's final moments for the first time yesterday. Oxford coroner's court was cleared so about 40 relatives could...
News Source: The Scotsman
| about 1 year ago
Traumatic' tape of doomed Nimrod's last seconds Published Date: 08 May 2008 THE brother of a British airman, one of 14 servicemen killed when a Nimrod spy plane crashed, yesterday described hearing a recording of his last moments as "very traumatic".
News Source: Islamic Republic News Agency
| about 1 year ago
Afghanistan The delayed inquest into 14 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan, when a Nimrod reconnaissance plane crashed in nearly two years ago, formally opened Wednesday with a cockpit recording of moments before the aircraft burst into flames.
News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| about 1 year ago
British servicemen who died when a Nimrod spy plane crashed in Afghanistan heard recordings of the aicraft's final moments Wednesday, at an inquest into their deaths. The coroner's court in Oxford was cleared so that the relatives could hear in...
News Source: BBC South Asia
| about 1 year ago
Oxford Coroner's Court was emptied so they could hear the cockpit recording in private. The 37-year-old reconnaissance plane exploded just minutes after undergoing air-to-air refuelling near Kandahar on 2 September 2006, killing all on board. The...
News Source: ITN
| about 1 year ago
Oxford Coroner's Court was cleared so that they could hear the cockpit recording from Nimrod XV 230 in private. The 37-year-old reconnaissance aircraft exploded in a ball of flames just minutes after undergoing mid-air refuelling near Kandahar on...