I may have missed it in an earlier post, but does anyone know if the firing handle was found to be out of the normal position when the seat was found, or if any abnormal harness routings were noted.
I still find it very hard to believe that regardless of any bolt thread "show" requirement that this assembly COULD be overtightened as every engineer working on the seat would most surely know how the scissor shackle was meant to function.
Or how anyone would enter a jet cockpit without first positively ensuring that the seat firing handle(s) and safety pin(s) were in position, so surely all must have looked absolutely normal as he boarded the jet.
This really is a most curious accident.
Last edited by RetiredBA/BY; 23rd Jan 2014 at 09:22.