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Inquiry begins into cadet death Fatal boat trip names 'not taken'
(about 12 hours later)
A fatal accident inquiry into the death of an army cadet who drowned on a training exercise is due to begin. Organisers of a loch training exercise in which an Army cadet died did not log the names of those boarding the boat, a fatal accident inquiry has heard.
Kaylee McIntosh, 14, died after being pinned under a capsized boat on South Uist. Kaylee McIntosh, 14, drowned during the exercise on Loch Carnan on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides last summer.
It took 90 minutes for anyone to notice she was missing. Marine accident investigators uncovered a catalogue of errors leading to her death. The youngster, from Fyvie in Aberdeenshire, died after being pinned under a capsized boat.
Kaylee's parents, from Fyvie in Aberdeenshire, have called for criminal charges to be brought. A Marine Accident Investigation had previously found that Kaylee was wearing the wrong kind of life jacket.
The inquiry will be held at Inverness Sheriff Court. It uncovered a catalogue of errors including a failure to check that everyone was back on dry land following the accident.
Kaylee was among a group of eight cadets and four adults on the boat when the accident happened on Loch Carnan last August. Because no-one had noticed Kaylee, who was a member of the 2nd Battalion Highlanders Army Cadet Force, had been missing she was trapped under the boat for 90 minutes.
She was a member of the 2nd Battalion Highlanders Army Cadet Force. I don't think there was a clipboard, he was counting us off in his head Army cadet, aged 14
'Tragic incident' On Monday, at the opening of the fatal accident inquiry into her death, a fellow cadet spoke about the preparations for the exercise.
A Marine Accident Investigation Branch report said her lifejacket was not approved for use by children. The 14-year-old boy, who cannot be named because of his age, told Inverness Sheriff Court he did not remember seeing any of the instructors taking names as he prepared to board his boat.
It said the jacket's extra buoyancy would have pinned her under the boat. Kaylee was among a group of eight cadets and four adults on the boat when the accident happened last August.
The report also revealed that an error in a headcount taken after the incident meant the teenager was trapped under the boat for an hour-and-a-half before it was noticed she was missing. The boy told procurator fiscal David Teale that the sergeant in charge only kept a mental note of who had boarded.
Defence Secretary Des Browne has previously described her death as a "terrible and tragic incident". The boy said: "I don't think there was a clipboard, he was counting us off in his head. The adults were memorising the faces of the cadets."
Mr Teale asked: "You did not hear any cadets giving their names to the instructors?"
"Not that I heard," the boy replied.
The inquiry, before Sheriff Alastair MacFadyen, continues.