Tony Blair responds to a question in the Commons
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The prime minister has said he is willing to meet politicians pressing to clear the names of the two RAF pilots killed in the Mull of Kintyre crash.
Tony Blair told the Commons he was prepared to meet the all-party group of MPs and peers but could not guarantee the original verdict would be altered.
The two helicopter pilots were found guilty of gross negligence by an RAF inquiry into the 1994 crash.
Former Prime Minister John Major is among those opposing the verdict.
A total of 29 people died when the Chinook flying from Belfast to Inverness crashed on the west coast of Scotland. Among them were Northern Ireland's top security experts.
Campaigners have been trying for years to overturn the RAF's conclusions that Jonathan Tapper and Richard Cook's negligence caused the accident by climbing at an inappropriate rate.
Mr Major recently added his weight to their efforts, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of what one senior officer said had been the RAF's largest peacetime tragedy.
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