For what it's worth, from the Daily Mirror 9 October 1962 (via the reproduction of the article in Martin Bowman's book on the Lightning).
" Jim Meads is a Mirror reader who was trying to amuse his two children, Paul, 4, and Barry, 3, by taking a picture of them as the Lightning was coming in to land at the De Havilland airfield near their home at Hatefiled, Herts.
The idea was to picture the children against the airfield background.
But at 300 feet, the jet was roaring nose-first to its destruction at 200 miles an hour.
Pilot George Aird, 34, pressed the button of his ejector seat [sic] ... [in orginal for dramatic effect, not an edit!] an explosive capsule [sic] shot him out and up. The cockpit canopy flew away to his right.
The he began the headlong dive for earth, the seat trailing behind him with its half-opened parachute.
One Hundred and Fifity Feet to go...
And reader Meads pressed his button releasing the shutter of his camera at 1,000th of a second at an exposure of f.8 [
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He captured the astonishing moment of life of death for George Aird as a farmworker on a tractor jerked his head round to watch.
<snip>.
Reader Meads took his pictures to the Ministry of Aviation for use in an inquiry into the accident.
Yesterday they released them, thanked him for the "excellent photographs" and for his eye witness story of the accident. It was on September 13."