Today marks the 30th anniversary of The Chinook Crash which tragically left 29 people dead.

A helicopter carrying leading security personnel crashed on the Mull of Kintyre peninsula on the west coast of Scotland on June 2 1994.

The crash was the RAF’s worst peacetime loss of life and came just two months before the 1994 IRA ceasefire in Northern Ireland.

Passengers on RAF Chinook ZD576 included leading security personnel from the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), MI5 and the Army.

They were travelling from Northern Ireland to a conference in Inverness at the time of the crash.

Family, friends and colleagues of the 29 people who died on June 2 1994 gathered at Southend Parish Church today where a service to honour their memory was held to remember the lives lost.