Originally Posted by
Distant Voice
JTO I suggest you read para 1.3.19 of the Sean Cunningham accident..
DV
Originally Posted by
k3k3
The Hawk canopy is one piece covering front and rear seats, there is no rear canopy. The blast screen is only there to protect the back seater, who sits higher than the pilot in front from the slipstream, in case of loss of canopy.
BV has covered this already but I implore posters to stay within their field of knowledge. A man has died in the worst of circumstances - this is not your moment to guess how a particular fast jet works or what injuries may have been imparted.
Like many on here I have flown the Hawk T1, including the tail number involved in this accident. I have also experienced a front seat canopy loss at around 480kts. Quite any event for the front seat but relatively benign for me in the intact rear cockpit. The Hawk was designed to protect the rear seat instructor / occupant from a front-seat ejection sequence.