The parachute on the ejection seat did not deploy and the South African-born airman later died in hospital.

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Whereas, if I fire myself out in the ejection seat, I may die.

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Following the incident, the RAF grounded all non-essential flying of all Hawk T1 aircraft fitted with the Mk10 Martin Baker-built ejection seat "as a precaution".

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Following the incident at the Lincolnshire airbase, the RAF grounded all non-essential flying of all Hawk T1 aircraft fitted with the Mk10 Martin Baker-built ejection seat for one month "as a precaution".

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Five months later, a search team at the scene of the crash found skeletal remains along with Blassie's identity card, a flight suit, an ejection seat and other items strongly suggesting whose bones these were.

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One ejection seat shell ripped through an oak tree and crashed into a condo fence, and the other seat shell landed next door, suggesting that the two Navy pilots ejected at a low altitude, another resident, Keith Gutkowski, told CNN.

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The CEO had ignored my attempts to keep the conversation on topic, and mid-way through I was fervently wishing for an ejection seat that could have launched me up from that table through hatch in the ceiling, and safely out of that conversation.

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The row that was set off by Mr Prodi's ejection from the Italian prime minister's seat last autumn, when he was replaced by Massimo D'Alema, the ex-communist who still has the job, goes on simmering.

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