British Navy releases names of officers killed in collision

THE names of three Royal Navy officers who died when two British helicopters collided in the Gulf at the weekend were released yesterday.

They were Lieutenants James Williams, 28, Philip West, 32, and Antony King, 35, all based at the Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose, near Helston, west Cornwall, England.

A fourth officer from the station lost in the same crash has been named in reports as 31-year-old Philip Green.