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FAMILIES of four North West servicemen killed in a Nimrod crash in Afghanistan have called for assurances that the fleet would be grounded to prevent another tragedy. Sgt John Langton, 29, of Liverpool; Sgt Gary Quilliam, 42, of Manchester; Flt Lt Allan Squires, 39, of Clatterbridge, Wirral and Flt Lt Steven Swarbrick, 28, of Liverpool were among 14 servicemen killed on September 2, 2006 just after the Nimrod had refuelled in mid-air above Kandahar. Their families spoke ahead of a meeting with armed forces minister Bob Ainsworth on Thursday to discuss the "insult" they were paid when the RAF rejected a coroner's assertion that Nimrods were not airworthy. A three-week inquest conducted by Andrew Walker, Assistant Deputy Coroner for Oxford, ruled in May that the Nimrod spy planes were all "unsafe to fly" as a "serious design... [read full story]
