Tess Ikonomou

August 3, 2026 — 8:28pm

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Senior military officers have denied the Defence department covered-up parts of an investigation into a fatal Taipan helicopter crash that killed four soldiers.

Captain Danniel Lyon, Lieutenant Maxwell Nugent, Warrant Officer Class Two Joseph Laycock and Corporal Alexander Naggs were killed when their MRH-90 chopper crashed off Queensland’s Whitsunday Islands during Exercise Talisman Sabre on July 28, 2023.

Air Vice-Marshal Tim Innes, representing the Defence Aviation Authority, told a parliamentary…

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