TWO RAF officers based at Leuchars died yesterday when their Tornado

F3 fighter crashed into the Mediterranean. Flight Lieutenant Stuart

Walker, 32, from London, and Flight Lieutenant Nigel Orme, 28, from

Wales, were on a training exercise from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, when the

accident happened 15 miles south of the island.

Both officers were married and were stationed at the Fife airbase with

the 43rd Squadron. An MoD spokesman confirmed that a board of inquiry

had been set up. The men were plucked from the sea by a helicopter crew

but were dead on arrival at a military hospital at RAF Akrotiri.

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