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Fresh calls to clear names of Chinook pilots

Senior politicians are calling on the Ministry of Defence to exonerate two pilots blamed for a helicopter crash that killed 25 intelligence experts on the Mull of Kintyre.

The move comes after campaigners said new evidence pointed to a possible failure of software in the onboard computer.

The information comes from an internal MoD document written by aircraft-testing experts nine months before the tragedy.