Originally Posted by
NutLoose
I believe the Tornado command ejection was brought about during early testing of the Aircraft, if I remember rightly they were up on an Test Flight over the North Sea and an incident occurred ( birdstrike? ) disabling the front seater , the aircraft was in a shallow descent and the rear seater stuck it talking to the pilot hoping he would start to respond until at low height he was forced to bang out leaving the poor guy to his fate. The command ejection came about from that incident. Or am I getting confused?
This sounds a little like the accident where the aircraft (BS029?) suffered a complete electrical failure and the pilot was not responding to the Nav. If it is this one, I believe the cause is unexplained to this day. I'm not absolutely sure but I think the Tornado had command ejection from day one.
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