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Army cadet death inquiry resumes Failures led to Army cadet death
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The inquiry into the death of an Army cadet in a boating accident is set to resume. A catalogue of failures led to a teenage Army cadet losing her life in a boating accident, an inquiry has heard.
Kaylee McIntosh, 14, from Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, died when the boat she was in capsized on an exercise in South Uist in August last year. Kaylee McIntosh, 14, died when her boat capsized in choppy waters on Loch Carnan in South Uist in August 2007.
Expedition organiser Major George McCallum has accepted that planning of the trip had been "exceptionally bad". Giving his final submission to a fatal accident inquiry at Inverness Sheriff Court, fiscal David Teale said a "failure of planning" caused her death.
The long-running inquiry, adjourned in August, will reconvene to hear final submissions at Inverness Sheriff Court. He accused Major George McCallum, who organised the exercise, of not doing a proper check on the sea conditions.
Wrong lifejacket Mr Teale also said the coastguard was not informed about the exercise in advance, and there was a lack of communication between the boats involved.
Kaylee died while taking part in a three-boat training exercise on 3 August, 2007. A headcount error meant Kaylee, from Fyvie in Aberdeenshire, was trapped under the boat for more than an hour before it was noticed she was missing, Mr Teale added.
A rescue operation was launched after the power boat carrying the schoolgirl capsized. Kaylee was one of 34 cadets taking part in the three-boat training exercise.
An error in a headcount taken after the incident meant the teenager was trapped under the upturned boat for one-and-a-half hours before it was noticed she was missing. A rescue operation was launched after the vessel carrying the schoolgirl and 12 others capsized.
An earlier investigation found she had been wearing the wrong kind of lifejacket, which had kept her pinned under the boat. Earlier this year, an investigation by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch found Kaylee had been wearing the wrong kind of lifejacket.
The jacket's buoyancy is more than three times that of those usually used by cadets in training activities and would have pinned her under the boat, the investigation found.