18 year £1.2billion MoD "cock up"

The Chinooks have been parked in a hangar at RAF Boscombe Down in Wiltshire since 1995. The scandal was exposed in 2008, forcing the MoD to deliver a quick fix to get the aircraft flying by 2010. But someone failed to order the correct computer codes for pilots to fly them. Tory MP Edward Leigh described the saga as a “gold standard procurement cock-up”, leaving special forces in Afghanistan short of air support.

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