Got my copy yesterday, superb book, but what an incredible revelation of incompetence and downright dishonesty in both MOD and certain aspects of RAF training or lack of. On page 135 it reveals that only 2 aircrew of 40 questioned knew how to check the top latch was correctly engaged, unbelievable.. That , in my day certainly and should be now, , was one of the simplest but most vital checks on the seat, done carefully each time EVERY time.
Frightening, that training had fallen to this level.
My take is that the prosecution and conviction of MB was a miscarriage of justice.
Mandatory reading for anyone at all interested in this accident or ejection seats in general.