I was flying in echelon starboard formation with another Puma when the sky a few metres ahead of us suddenly turned bright red!
When hydraulic fluid mist sprayed all over our windscreen I realised what was happening and called on the radio: "Two to Lead, Looks like you've got a major hydraulic failure!"
Reply: "Negative, everything's normal here.....Oo - er! PAN PAN PAN!"
Twenty seconds later he was parked in a field.