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Old 25th Apr 2009, 12:27
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K2 Ejection

Further thought. I have a suspicion that it was a 57 Sqn Victor K1 or K1a involved. The Bucc got in the wing vortex and got thrown over the top of the Victor taking the tail off. Information changes, but at the time it was thought the aircraft bunted so hard the negative G stopped both the pilot and co-pilot ejecting using the seat pan handles. The cockpit broke up and fired one ejection seat in the process. I did ask Neddy some years later about the actual sequence of events in the cockpit, but perhaps not surprisingly, he had no recollection.
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