Detective Superintendent Billy Gwilliam was one of a number of senior RUC officers killed in the 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash.
According to Statewatch, he was the head of the E2 Division within RUC Special Branch at the time of his death.
RUC Detective Superintendent Gwilliam was travelling to a security conference in Inverness when the RAF Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in foggy conditions. The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts.
Boeing Vertol Chinook H.C. Mk.2 ZD576 of No.7 Squadron, RAF, crashed on Beinn Na Lice close to the Mull of Kintyre on the 2nd June 1994.
The aircraft was being used to fly personnel from the Army, security and intelligence services to a meeting at Fort George near Inverness. They had taken off from Aldergrove near Belfast and were flying in a north-easterly direction when the aircraft struck the western side of Beinn Na Lice close to the road which descends the steep slope to the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse. It travelled for some distance after the initial impact before coming to rest inverted in two major sections where a fire broke out destroying much of the wreckage.
According to Statewatch, he was the head of the E2 Division within RUC Special Branch at the time of his death.
RUC Detective Superintendent Gwilliam was travelling to a security conference in Inverness when the RAF Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in foggy conditions. The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts.
Boeing Vertol Chinook H.C. Mk.2 ZD576 of No.7 Squadron, RAF, crashed on Beinn Na Lice close to the Mull of Kintyre on the 2nd June 1994.
The aircraft was being used to fly personnel from the Army, security and intelligence services to a meeting at Fort George near Inverness. They had taken off from Aldergrove near Belfast and were flying in a north-easterly direction when the aircraft struck the western side of Beinn Na Lice close to the road which descends the steep slope to the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse. It travelled for some distance after the initial impact before coming to rest inverted in two major sections where a fire broke out destroying much of the wreckage.
Detective Superintendent Billy Gwilliam was one of a number of senior RUC officers killed in the 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash.
According to Statewatch, he was the head of the E2 Division within RUC Special Branch at the time of his death.
RUC Detective Superintendent Gwilliam was travelling to a security conference in Inverness when the RAF Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in foggy conditions. The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts.
Boeing Vertol Chinook H.C. Mk.2 ZD576 of No.7 Squadron, RAF, crashed on Beinn Na Lice close to the Mull of Kintyre on the 2nd June 1994.
The aircraft was being used to fly personnel from the Army, security and intelligence services to a meeting at Fort George near Inverness. They had taken off from Aldergrove near Belfast and were flying in a north-easterly direction when the aircraft struck the western side of Beinn Na Lice close to the road which descends the steep slope to the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse. It travelled for some distance after the initial impact before coming to rest inverted in two major sections where a fire broke out destroying much of the wreckage.
According to Statewatch, he was the head of the E2 Division within RUC Special Branch at the time of his death.
RUC Detective Superintendent Gwilliam was travelling to a security conference in Inverness when the RAF Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in foggy conditions. The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts.
Boeing Vertol Chinook H.C. Mk.2 ZD576 of No.7 Squadron, RAF, crashed on Beinn Na Lice close to the Mull of Kintyre on the 2nd June 1994.
The aircraft was being used to fly personnel from the Army, security and intelligence services to a meeting at Fort George near Inverness. They had taken off from Aldergrove near Belfast and were flying in a north-easterly direction when the aircraft struck the western side of Beinn Na Lice close to the road which descends the steep slope to the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse. It travelled for some distance after the initial impact before coming to rest inverted in two major sections where a fire broke out destroying much of the wreckage.
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GWILLIAM
WILLIAM RUTHERFORD, D/SUPERINTENDENT R.U.C.
DIED 2 JUNE 1994, INTHE M OF K AIR CRASH, AGED 50 YEARS.
DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF JOAN
AND DEVOTED FATHER OF JOANNE AND DAVID.
TILL WE MEET AGAIN.
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