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Old 23rd Mar 2018, 10:19
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wiggy
 
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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
FWIW I’m in agreement with others here who have stated the above sounds very much like the RAF F4 accident where the aircraft slowly descended towards the North Sea for reasons unknown and the pilot didn’t respond to the navigators prompts, for reasons unknown but possibly medical. The end result result was the navigator (only) ejecting - the F-4Ks and F4M’s did not have command eject.

I do not know if there was there was a similar accident involving a Tornado.

As for the general issue of images of accidents..many will have accidentally come across the really unpleasant images from the recent self drive car accident, we have all seen and no doubt will continue to see through various outlets countless replays of various high profile aviation and other accidents in the coming months and years. TBH I’m a bit uneasy at the “naming and shaming” going on in some of the previous posts...like it or not it is the world we now live in.

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