Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
In a "full and frank discussion", families of the 14 servicemen killed onboard a Nimrod plane in 2006 met minister Bob Ainsworth and the chief of air staff to discuss their rejection of a coroner's verdict to ground the squadron. Families of Sergeant Benjamin James Knight, 25, Lance Corporal Oliver Simon Dicketts, 27, Flight Lieutenant Gareth Rodney Nicholas, 40, Sergeant John...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Families of Sergeant Benjamin James Knight, 25, Lance Corporal Oliver Simon Dicketts, 27, Flight Lieutenant Gareth Rodney Nicholas, 40, Sergeant John Joseph Langton, 29, and Flight Sergeant Gerard Martin Bell, 48, attended a meeting at the MoD in London to try and gain assurances that no more Nimrods will leave the ground until they are safe to fly.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Families of Sergeant Benjamin James Knight, 25, Lance Corporal Oliver Simon Dicketts, 27, Flight Lieutenant Gareth Rodney Nicholas, 40, Sergeant John Joseph Langton, 29, and Flight Sergeant Gerard Martin Bell, 48, attended a meeting at the MoD in London to try and gain assurances that no more Nimrods will leave the ground until they are safe to fly.
icWales (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Families of Sergeant Benjamin James Knight, 25, Lance Corporal Oliver Simon Dicketts, 27, Flight Lieutenant Gareth Rodney Nicholas, 40, Sergeant John Joseph Langton, 29, and Flight Sergeant Gerard Martin Bell, 48, attended a meeting at the MoD in London to try and gain assurances that no more Nimrods will leave the ground until they are safe to fly.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
... the MoD countered Mr Walker’s recommendations and stated that the planes were airworthy.Robert Dicketts, whose 27-year-old son L/Cpl Oliver Simon Dicketts was also killed onboard the Nimrod, wrote a letter to the Ministry of Defence.In it, he said: “We were all very upset that you felt able to make an immediate comment about the airworthiness of the Nimrod fleet before...
