Leadership By Magazine – Pilots Exonerated

Leadership By Magazine – Pilots Exonerated

Last week, click to read, I shared how Computer Weekly (CW) magazine was the first to share – in May 2009 – the bugs in The Post Office’s faulty Horizon system, and the subsequent human devastation suffered by hundreds of sub-postmasters.

Coming up against the might of The Post Office machine was one thing, upsetting the UK Ministry of Defence is quite another! And again, this unknown magazine outside of IT researched, discovered and persisted for what they believed was right.

The Chinook Helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre occurred on June 2, 1994 – 30 years ago this coming Sunday – resulting in the deaths of all twenty-nine people on board – 25 senior British intelligence experts and four crew members.

The initial investigation into the crash placed the blame on the two pilots, suggesting they were guilty of gross negligence for flying too fast and too low in poor visibility. This conclusion was highly controversial and met with considerable opposition from various quarters, including the pilots’ families and CW, who took the journalistic lead, believing an on board instrument failure was the cause.

For years, the all-powerful establishment held the view that the pilots were to blame. CW disagreed, and persisted. Finally, on July 13, 2011 – 17 years later – Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox announced to the UK House Commons that the findings of gross negligence against Flight Lieutenants Jonathan Tapper and Richard Cook were to be set aside, clearing their names.

Stand up, amazing leader Mr.Tony Collins – https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-collins-705178,who led the campaigns for CW on both Horizon and Chinook..

David

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