Petition updateJustice for the 29: Expose the Chinook ZD576 Cover-up"Chinook crash victim 'would want answers", sister tells BBC News
Chinook Justice CampaignUnited Kingdom
13 Aug 2025

BBC News covered our campaign again this week, interviewing Nicola Rawcliffe, the sister of Major Christopher Dockerty (pictured above with his dog, Folly) who was killed in the 1994 Chinook crash. 

On the day her brother died, Nicola had just returned home from a holiday with her husband and was welcomed with a birthday card from Chris.

She said she had not listened to any news that night and went to bed.

"The next thing I knew was stones being thrown up at our bedroom window in the early hours of 3rd June 1994 because, unbeknown to me, Chris had appointed me his next of kin should my parents be out of the country," she explained.

"I had the harrowing task of not only receiving the devastating news delivered to me by this army officer at two in the morning, but then I also had to telephone my parents to tell them their eldest son had been killed in a Chinook helicopter crash.

"It was harrowing and incredibly hard."

Read more on the BBC News website here  & watch Nicola's interview for BBC Look East here and you can listen to her talking to BBC Radio Suffolk here.

Thank you for supporting our campaign so that Nicola and our other families can get truth and transparency from the MoD, and of course please share with your friends and colleagues so we can hit our next target, 50,000 signatures. 

Thank you

The Chinook Justice Campaign

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