A recognised risk?
So how many such inadvertent ejections have there been?
To place her words in context, she also criticised poor training, and the SI report is excellent in that respect. The risk was indeed low, but increased to a significant degree when MoD diluted training and weakened other defences in depth, without making compensatory provision. I was but a lad when the Service HQ posts responsible for identify these things and making provision were chopped. Numerous official reports have criticised this move, I suppose the most notable being in 1996 as it was direct to PUS.