You don’t get to pretend to be the grown up and then use your supposed wealth of experience to tell us what happens next without first offering an apology.
OK Bob I take your point and apologise to those people I have offended, it was a genuine mistake. My intention was to highlight the hopelessness of Cpl Bayliss's situation. I suspect that he trusted the system, and the system let him down.
My post would have been better had it read,
"In my honest opinion the the answer to Q1 is 'No'. I suspect that in the case of the XX204 accident Cpl Bayliss would not have known there was a problem until he saw the flames from the pilot's seat rocket pack as he left the aircraft".
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