Originally Posted by
Jayand
Aside from the physical act of pulling the handle and all the decisions and timing that go with that what about the lack of Survival training non aircrew have for these backseat flights? What if an ejection occured over the sea, are they familiar/well practiced in the skills of sea survival? Annual pool drills? Liferafts, PSP's etc? The enquiry into this I suspect will be messy.
I suspect due to previous ejections involving non aircrew going into the water that is a road already travelled by previous BoI’s.
This also isn’t the first multiple ejection where one crewmember has been survived but another hasn’t, so I’m also not sure at this stage that we can draw any conclusions about survival simply because one of those involved wasn’t a Fast Jet Pilot/navigator etc....