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Qinetiq chief executive resigns
Bae :: Indonesia | about 1 month ago
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The company said Graham Love is standing down with immediate effect after eight years with the group. Leo Quinn, the former head of currency printer De La Rue, will take over. A safety review of the Nimrod crash carried out by the MoD, BAE Systems and...
Tags: Graham Love, RAF Nimrod, corporate manslaughter, Qinetiq Names Quinn, manslaughter charges, nimrod crashed, chief executive
Inquiry after Nimrod overshoots runway
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
Credibility An investigation was launched after a military plane overshot a runway, it was confirmed today. The Nimrod left the runway at RAF Kinloss in Moray as it was coming in to land. No one was injured as a result of the incident, which is believed to have...
Tags: RAF Nimrod, RAF Kinloss
Britain's Nimrod Planes 'Should be Grounded'
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility But the British Ministry of Defence said it would continue to fly the planes, a workhorse of the fleet for 40 years. The entire Nimrod fleet "has never been airworthy from the first time it was released to the service", coroner Andrew Walker said. He...
Tags: Nimrod, RAF, surveillance, RAF Nimrod, Afghanistan, Andrew Walker (actor), nimrods fleet, deputy coroner, Oxfordshire, assistant deputy, RAF Kinloss, British Ministry of Defence, spy planes
Spy plane's 'fundamental flaw'
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility A senior RAF officer admitted there was a "fundamental flaw" in the aircraft fleet's design. "At the heart of this was a fundamental design flaw. Air Commodore George Baber Air Commodore George Baber admitted mistakes were made during a hazard assessment...
Tags: spy plane, RAF Nimrod
Nimrod families hear cockpit tape
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility 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 September...
Tags: RAF Nimrod, refuelled near, Kandahar, near kandahar, spy plane, plane crashed, cockpit recording, air refuelled, Afghanistan, old reconnaissance
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