"David Rance" wrote in message
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2011, Sacha wrote:

On 2011-08-27 14:11:53 +0100, Janet Tweedy
said:

In article , David Rance
writes

No more than our family. My daughter (RAF padre) and her husband knew
the pilot.
David

Brave man but I did wonder how come his parachute came out without
him?
Most military families feel the loss every time one dies.

The reports aren't in but one theory was a bird-strike and that he'd tried
to use his ejector seat but didn't have enough height for it to deploy
properly. It's a terrible tragedy.

My son-in-law (ex fighter pilot) says that the bird-strike theory is
discounted. His own theory is that the pilot suffered (and I think I've
got this right) "G-lock". At the moment of the manoeuvre he would have
been subjected to a force of 4G and would have temporarily lost
consciousness. A fault with the aircraft is also discounted as none of the
others have been grounded on account of the accident. The force of the
impact would (according to Sean) have caused the ejector seat to fire
anyway.

David

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David Rance
writing from Le Mesnil Villement, Calvados, France


Glad someone else has the same theory as me. The only doubt I have on such a
theory and 'almost' dismissed it, is that they do so many displays, one
would have thought they would have 'got used to it', or, 'learnt to overcome
it'.

Mike

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