Originally Posted by soddim
And it was quite clear that they meant no harm to the Jag mate because otherwise they would have strafed his parachute!
I thank you for interjecting the required shot of humour.
this is one event which really rubbed a lot of plumbers up the wrong way at the time. There was always going to be a certain amount of blame shifting after an incident like that and we seemed to cop an inordinately unfair amount considering all our bits worked and the guys on the ground did evrything as per. After all the missile did growl, it did go whoosh and the Jag jockey will vouch for it going bang.