Crab.......... come on. Making sure there is no SAR kit under a canvas Seaking PAX seat does not make it "crashworthy"
quite right but putting stuff under it makes it very un-crashworthy - cast your mind back to the Wessex that went into the lake in Snowdonia many years ago - that killed some cadets who were sitting in seats that had kit stored underneath them and this was a major contributory factor to their deaths because there was no 'planned progressive failure' of the seat which might have absorbed some of the impact. The seats in the SK are the same as the Wessex which is why the pax are protected now by the 'no kit under the seats' rule. Not crashworthy per se but much less un-crashworthy than with kit underneath.