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Miscellaneous => Aviation News => Topic started by: viking9 on January 10, 2014, 01:01:37 PM

Title: Did Night Nurse cause Red Arrows pilot death?
Post by: viking9 on January 10, 2014, 01:01:37 PM
A Red Arrows aerial display team pilot who died after he was ejected from his cockpit while on the ground may have been impaired by Night Nurse medicine, an inquest heard today. Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham, 35, was fatally injured after being ejected from his Hawk T1 aircraft while on the ground at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. The parachute on the ejector seat did not deploy and the South African-born airman - a well-respected and experienced pilot who was also an Iraq war veteran - died in hospital.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536611/Did-Night-Nurse-contribute-death-Red-Arrows-pilot-Sean-Cunningham.html#ixzz2q04QFK9T