As someone whose knowledge of ejection seats ceased after working on the Lightning on 92 Sqn ask a question in order to get my feeble mind round the whole sad business ?
Was the seat 'unairworthy' within the definition as outlined by tucumseh ?
What triggered the initiation of the seat ?
Was there a design error ?
Was their a servicing error ?
Yes I have read everything but am still confused !
One thing that strikes me about the revelations by tucumseh and others is how naive I (and I suspect many others) have been throughout my service career.
I always assume that those of us at the 'coal face' (aircrew and ground crew)
were having our best interests looked after by those further up the food chain.
The opposite now appears to have been the case. In the furtherance of awards, careers and penny pinching the very things that should have helped safeguard us have been discarded as irrelevent. And despite the charade that appears to be the MAA nothing will change. How these gentlemen can sleep at night is beyond me.