I hope the families of those killed in the 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook Crash don't give up on their campaign for answers. Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has denied a public inquiry into the deaths of 29 aircrew and top security forces personnel from Northern Ireland because the Ministry of Defence has advised against it. That's like taking the fox's word that there's no need to make the hen house more secure. But I hear that those former colleagues who remember Starmer as a lawyer say there wasn't a snowball's chance in Hell that he would order a new inquiry. I also understand that the only family members of the dead who aren't demanding answers are those of the MI5 agents. Why is that not a surprise? Most normal people continue to wonder why a helicopter crewed by two the top Chinook pilots in the RAF would fly into a hill side at the Mull of Kintyre. An attempt by senior RAF officers to blame the pilots failed. The safety record of the actual Chinook involved was queried. A computer system controlling the engines was notoriously unreliable. Boeing, the Chinook's maker, was heavily involved in the investigation from the beginning. A cynic might feel that the team was more interested in protecting Boeing than finding out why 29 Limeys died. The initial RAF finding of pilot error would have suited Boeing. Many of the papers relating the crash have been sealed until 2094. Who or what is being protected? Perhaps the papers shine too bright a light on the Chinook procurement programme and how many, if any, retired RAF and Ministry of Defence personnel were on the Boeing payroll at the time.  A cosy berth in the arms industry after retirement from the RAF has long been a perk for senior officers. Previous inquiries have been flawed for one reason or another. Perhaps too many vested interests.