Britain’s defence ministry pays out over horse claims

A Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter.

Noisy low-flying jets in addition to helicopters damage Britain’s Ministry of Defence tens of thousands of pounds concluding year, compensating Equus caballus owners for the mayhem caused.

However, the £230,000 it paid to Equus caballus owners pales against the £88 1 one k thousand compensation mouth the ministry building of late forked out inwards 1 yr lonely inwards compensation across all facets of its operations.

The costliest horse-related claim concluding yr appeared to convey been an £83,000 payout afterward a low-flying Chinook helicopter inwards Axminster, Devon, spooked a Equus caballus which in addition to then knocked over a person, causing them caput injuries.

There were 3 divide payouts – £64,666, £45,000 in addition to £36,995 – to riders unseated when their mounts were scared yesteryear the dissonance of low-flying aircraft. The incidents involved but about other Chinook helicopter, a Tornado jet in addition to a Hawk jet.

Low-flying aircraft that resulted inwards harm to holding or personal injury totalled £680,000 for the year.

Last January, the ministry building raised eyebrows over its £88 1 one k thousand compensation mouth inwards 1 year.

The compensation resulted from a broad make of incidents, from petroleum spills to abuse of unusual detainees in addition to crop harm inwards Afghanistan

About one-half of the payments were to staff badly injured serving their country.

But the claims likewise covered many other acts, averaging £250,000 a twenty-four hours for the fiscal yr ending Apr 2012.

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