John Charles Brian FITZSIMONS, M.B.E., Assistant Chief Constable. (Former head of RUC Special Branch in Northern Ireland) Killed killed on the 2nd June 1994 in the Mull of Kintyre in a Chinook Helicopter crash.
On 2 June 1994, a Chinook helicopter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), serial number ZD576, The last flight of Zulu Delta 576
crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, in foggy conditions. The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts. The accident is the RAF's worst peacetime disaster.
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At 5.42pm on Thursday, June 2, the Boeing Chinook mk2 helicopter forming Flight ZD 576 took off from RAF Aldergrove near Belfast Airport, heading for Fort George near Inverness. On board were 25 male passengers, almost all of them involved in the police and intelligence services, as well as the crew of four.
At rest in Comber Cemetery, County Down, Northern Ireland.
