Don't forget that the 'background checks' on military students are far more comprehensive than those currently applied to flying club members. Believe me!! Although the cause of a fatal Hunter crash near Shawbury in 1974/5 was, according to those under training at the time, never fully explained. A student on a review trip with a senior QFI was flying a manual GCA into Shawbury when the aircraft was seen to plummet below the glidepath. The 'enquiry' concluded that the QFI had 'failed to take recovery action in time'. But others in the know had heard the student say that he could never face the humiliation and shame of being 'chopped' if he failed the trip. The student was from an Arab air force; many thought that the accident report was a political economy of truth and that the accident was caused by suicide alone.
[ 27 September 2001: Message edited by: BEagle ]