On 2 June 1994 , a 7 Squadron Chinook HC .2 ( ZD576 ) crashed into the Mull of Kintyre while carrying 25 senior members of the British security forces from RAF Aldergrove , Belfast to Inverness . All passengers and the four crew were killed . In April 2001 , 7 Squadron RAF became part of the Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing ( JSFAW ) with a role to support the United Kingdom Special Forces . On 19 August 2009 , a Chinook made an emergency landing in Afghanistan after being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade ( RPG )
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1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash
No. 7 Squadron RAF