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Former Southend minister’s ‘grave concern’ for Chinook crash papers

Reverend Roddy McNidder was the minister at Southend for 10 years.

The Southend Parish Church minister at the time of the fatal 1994 RAF Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre has expressed ‘grave concern’ that official documents relating to the incident could be destroyed.

Twenty-five years on from the crash which killed 29 people, Reverend Roddy McNidder, who preached at Southend from 1987 to 1997, fears the true cause of the crash may never be known.

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