14 service personnel, all highly experienced specialists, were killed following the crash of an RAF Nimrod MR2 aircraft in Afghanistan on Saturday 2nd September 2006.
The plane was trying to return to Kandahar airbase following a serious technical malfunction but crashed 12 miles short of the runway.
The servicemen who died were:
Flight Lieutenant Steven Johnson, aged 38, from Collingham, Notts
Flight Lieutenant Leigh Mitchelmore, aged 28 from Bournemouth
Flight Lieutenant Gareth Nicholas, aged 40 from Redruth, Cornwall
Flight Lieutenant Allan Squires , aged 39, from Clatterbridge
Flight Lieutenant Steven Swarbrick, aged 28, from Liverpool
Flight Sergeant Gary Andrews, aged 48 from Tankerton in Kent
Flight Sergeant Stephen Beattie, aged 42 from Dundee
Flight Sergeant Gerard Bell, aged 48, was from Ely, Cambridgeshire
Flight Sergeant Adrian Davies, aged 49 from Amersham, Bucks
Sergeant Benjamin James Knight aged 25 from Bridgewater
Sergeant John Langton, aged 29 from Liverpool
Sergeant Gary Quilliam, aged 42 from Manchester
Corporal Oliver Dicketts, the Parachute Regiment
Marine Joseph Windall, Royal Marines, aged 22
Flight Lieutenant Leigh Mitchelmore, aged 28 from Bournemouth
Flight Lieutenant Gareth Nicholas, aged 40 from Redruth, Cornwall
Flight Lieutenant Allan Squires , aged 39, from Clatterbridge
Flight Lieutenant Steven Swarbrick, aged 28, from Liverpool
Flight Sergeant Gary Andrews, aged 48 from Tankerton in Kent
Flight Sergeant Stephen Beattie, aged 42 from Dundee
Flight Sergeant Gerard Bell, aged 48, was from Ely, Cambridgeshire
Flight Sergeant Adrian Davies, aged 49 from Amersham, Bucks
Sergeant Benjamin James Knight aged 25 from Bridgewater
Sergeant John Langton, aged 29 from Liverpool
Sergeant Gary Quilliam, aged 42 from Manchester
Corporal Oliver Dicketts, the Parachute Regiment
Marine Joseph Windall, Royal Marines, aged 22
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