Families of those killed in the 1994 RAF Chinook helicopter crash have called on new Prime Minister Andy Burnham to order a fresh, independent review into the disaster, after a High Court judge ruled this month that they could not launch legal proceedings against the Ministry of Defence over the tragedy. The Chinook Justice Campaign, representing more than 55 relatives, wants Burnham to meet them within his first 100 days in office and to treat the case as a test of the new Hillsborough Law's duty of candour, rather than face years of further litigation through the European Court of Human Rights.

Twenty-nine military personnel, mostly intelligence experts from MI5, the Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary, died when the Chinook HC-2 crashed in fog on the Mull of Kintyre on 2 June 1994 while flying from Northern Ireland to Inverness. A 2011 inquiry cleared the pilots of blame but never established the crash's cause, and the families are now seeking a review independent of the MoD with full access to documents on the helicopter's airworthiness. Their campaign, led by Matt Tobias, has the backing of former defence secretary Sir Liam Fox, and they have asked victims minister Alex Davies-Jones to take up the case.