From
http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/teamnews/...6B0555D90A3142
Unfortunately one of our pilots (Flight Lieutenant Andrew ‘Boomer’ Keith, who flies as Red 3) has suffered a fracture to his hand following a fall, and therefore the Red Arrows will fly an eight-ship display for the next few weeks. The Team trains hard during the winter to practise an eight-ship variant of their display just in case unforeseen accidents of this kind befall our pilots. The reason that we do not have a spare pilot is that one spare pilot could not possibly learn to fly in all of the positions in the Red Arrows’ very complex display to the required standard – he/she would have to be superman!
Boomer’s hand is healing well so we will hope that he will be fully back in action with the Team before too long. Other than having one less aircraft flying, our displays will carry on as normal – weather permitting of course!
So Iccarus, what's all the mis-information about him setting off the MDC, or are you referring to a past Arrows incident?