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Without the ejection - nothing happened !
But if it had been a commanded ejection then the seat would still have malfunctioned and still resulted in a fatal accident. Easy Street is right, Flt Lt Cunningham died in an Airworthiness Related Accident because his seat parachute could not deploy. This was a compromised SI, like the others concerning Airworthiness Related Fatal Military Air Accidents that litter this Forum.
This has to stop. The MOD's finger prints are all over this SI, just as they are all over the disgraceful delaying of publication of the Report until after the Coroner's Inquest. Theirs was the only version of events readily available to the family and to the court. The MAAIB is dependent on the MAA (who were responsible for ensuring the airworthiness, or lack of it, of XX179), and the MAA is dependent on the MOD. Until that incestuous trio are entirely separated from each other the scandal of avoidable military airworthiness related air accidents will continue with its awful cost in blood and treasure.