Cirrus, slip of the brain, maybe deliberate.
Following from your senior officer covering his 6:
About 1982, the staish, later Sir Sandy Curtains, had all aircrew assembled in the large dining room at ISL - Buccaneer (the stars), Jaguar, Sea King and Shackleton - and proceeded to bollock us all.
A Bucc formation, RTB from Norway, had flown through an HPZ around one of the rig fields - bad, yes, but compounded by the Nav saying "What HPZ?"
He read the riot act and said it would not happen again; if it did then that man would never be a 4-ship lead and would forever be a wing-man.
As Shack SLF we were able to sit with smug grins as we would never be a 4-ship lead as long as we had ***** in our *****.
That said, one Shack controller, chasing a chinagraph dot, that managed to drive an F4 into Montrose Harbour when the target had already landed at Leuchars was not blamed.
