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'The life we never chose': Families of Taipan crash victims demand answers at inquiry
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- An MRH-90 Taipan helicopter crashed into the ocean in North Queensland’s Whitsunday region during a training exercise in 2023, killing four men.
- Next month will mark three years since the tragedy, which claimed the lives of Captain Danniel Lyon, Lieutenant Maxwell Nugent, Warrant Officer Joseph 'Phillip' Laycock and Corporal Alexander Naggs.
- Captain Danniel Lyon, Corporal Alexander Naggs, Lieutenant Max Nugent and Warrant Officer Joseph Laycock were killed in the crash.
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An MRH-90 Taipan helicopter crashed into the ocean in North Queensland’s Whitsunday region during a training exercise in 2023, killing four men. (Supplied: ADF)
Link copied Share Share article Corruption claims and allegations of fabricated evidence have dominated a day of hearings as part of a Senate inquiry into a fatal army helicopter crash that claimed the lives of four men.
Next month will mark three years since the tragedy, which claimed the lives of Captain Danniel Lyon, Lieutenant Maxwell Nugent, Warrant Officer Joseph 'Phillip' Laycock and Corporal Alexander Naggs.
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