Tuesday's hearing comes four months after the BBC revealed
A subsequent review by Lord Philip set out "numerous concerns" raised by those who worked on the Chinooks.The MoD's testing centre at Boscombe Down in Wiltshire declared the Chinook Mk2 helicopters "unairworthy" prior to the crash.
Dr Phoenix, whose husband Ian was a detective superintendent in the RUC, has joined with other families to campaign for a "judge-led objective inquiry"."It really is heart breaking. We stuck in there and fought for the pilots - who were the cream of the air force and trying to make do with a faulty piece of kit," she said."We now know the aircraft was not airworthy, but the government are constantly re-iterating that it was just a tragic accident.
"Whatever happened on that night we may never know that, but we certainly know they should not have been flying it and they did not want to fly it."The families of the victims
that they say was not included in previous investigations and could offer new information on the airworthiness of the helicopter.
Dr Phoenix said the tragedy had been "locked up in cover up" over the 31 years since the crash."The war has been very tough for her," Enas tells the BBC. "She wasn't gaining any weight, and she would get sick so easily."
Niveen's only chance to survive was to receive urgent care outside Gaza. And in early March, Jordan made that possible.As a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel held, 29 sick Gazan children, including Niveen, were evacuated to Jordan to receive treatment in the country's hospitals. Her mother and older sister were brought out with her.
They were the first children evacuated to Jordan after King Abdullah announced plans to treat 2,000 sick Gazan children in hospitals there during a visit to the US the previous month. These evacuations were co-ordinated with the Israeli authorities who do background checks on the parents travelling with their children.Doctors in Jordan performed successful open-heart surgery on Niveen, and she was slowly beginning to recover.