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Declassified Cabinet documents record UK concern after Spanish helicopter crash in 1996

By Tommy Norton in London John Major’s cabinet discussed the diplomatic fall-out from a fatal helicopter crash during a drugs chase in the Strait of Gibraltar in April 1996, according to previously confidential minutes released to The National Archives in London. A Spanish Civil Guard helicopter was chasing a Gibraltar-registered speed boat suspected of drug...

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