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\"RAF Strike Commander\" Sir William Wratten Hand Signed FDC:
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Up for sale "RAF Strike Command" Sir William Wratten Hand Signed FDC.

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Air Chief

Marshal Sir William John Wratten, GBE,

CB, AFC (born 15 August 1939)

is a retired senior commander in the Royal Air

Force who was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief

of RAF Strike Command from 1994 to 1997. Educated

at Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate,

Wratten entered RAF Cranwell and was

commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 1960. He was appointed

Officer Commanding No. 23 Squadron in 1975 and, following his

promotion to group captain, he became Station Commander at RAF Coningsby

in 1980.[1] In June 1982 he was made the first

Station Commander at RAF Stanley in the Falkland Islands after

the 1982 war He went on to serve as Director of Operational Requirements (Air)

at Ministry of Defence in

1983, as Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 1 Group

in 1986 and as Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group

in 1989.[1] As an air vice

marshal, he was Air Commander British Forces Middle East from 17

November 1990 until the end of the Gulf War (as such he was the senior air

force officer in Operation Granby). His last appointment was as Air Officer Commanding Strike Command in 1994 before he retired in

1997. In 1995, following the Chinook Helicopter Crash

on the Mull of Kintyre, Wratten was the Senior

Reviewing Officer of the Board of Inquiry which had failed to find a cause of

the accident. Despite a lack of Accident Data Recorder and cockpit voice recorder, Wratten concluded

that because the aircraft hit the ground whilst in cloud/fog, pilot error was

the cause of the crash and found the pilots guilty of gross negligence.[3] Following a subsequent Scottish

Fatal Accident Inquiry and House of Commons Public Accounts Committee

report, a House of Lords Select Committee was appointed

to consider all the circumstances surrounding the crash and unanimously

concluded "that the reviewing officers were not justified in finding that

negligence on the part of the pilots caused the aircraft to crash".

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