I'm still a little amazed that a seat pan handle could be half pulled and the pin fitted.
My tuppence worth is that when you check seat pins you are mostly doing it for your own safety, not then next person's.
Moving seat pins is a different matter, and judging by the BOI Presidents comments, it was Flt Lt Cunningham himself who fitted that pin incorrectly, 4 days previously.
4 days? November? Was this aircraft towed in and out of the hangar with a techie sat in the seat on brakes !
I note a previous posters comment that he had seen a photo of an unsafe seat pan handle and says it is possible, but I am stunned.
Surely an A/F, B/F, T/R on a Hawk would pick this up?
And finally, the last person to check that pin...