Coroner: ground RAF Nimrod fleet
Updated on 23 May 2008
A coroner says the RAF's fleet of Nimrods should be taken out of service because they are unsafe. The government disagrees. Carl Dinnen reports.
A relative of one of the 14 servicemen killed in a mid-air explosion in Afghanistan has criticised the government for rejecting a coroner's call for the RAF's Nimrod fleet to be grounded.
Robert Dicketts called the decision an insult to the families of the dead.
Coroner Andrew Walker said the planes should be taken out of service because they were unsafe and had never been air worthy.
The servicemen died when their Nimrod reconnaissance plane exploded after mid-air refuelling.
