Quite by chance while searching FOI responses on a work task I came across
this one inviting the HSE to link the Moray Firth midair with the Sean Cunningham accident. The point made by Mr Jones about the lack of a FAI interested me in the context of this thread. An extract from his request to the HSE follows:
Two Tornado crew members died when their Martin Baker Mk10 seats and associate survival equipment failed to operate within the design envelope of ground level to 50,000 ft, and at speeds from zero to 630 knots. The Tornado collision took place at around 1000 ft and at a speed of 448 knots, technically well within the design parameters.
The height and speed of the collision is totally irrelevant, as I’m sure the writer well knows. The height, speed, attitude and rate of change of those parameters at *ejection* are what matters. Even taking the position that SI reports are not to be trusted, it takes a special kind of obtuseness to infer that the crews *might* have ejected from their disintegrating aircraft at the impact parameters. The request seems to me in bad faith, designed to gain the attention of a non-specialist organisation by misleading them. And here was me thinking this was a campaign with integrity at its heart!