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For the second time in less than three months, a (Red Arrows) team member has been fatally injured. The latest case happened Tuesday at about 1100Z, when 35-year-old Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham, a native of South Africa, was ejected while his BAE Systems Hawk T1 sat on the ground at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire.
The UK Ministry of Defense has ordered the grounding of all RAF aircraft fitted with the rocket-actuated Martin Baker Mk 10 ejection seat, according to the BBC. The suspension is expected to last for days, not weeks.
Cunningham was a veteran of multiple tours of Iraq, an alumnus of Nottingham Trent University, and had been with the RAF since 2000. He flew with the 617 Dambuster Squadron based at Lossiemouth.
For the second time in less than three months, a (Red Arrows) team member has been fatally injured. The latest case happened Tuesday at about 1100Z, when 35-year-old Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham, a native of South Africa, was ejected while his BAE Systems Hawk T1 sat on the ground at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire.
The UK Ministry of Defense has ordered the grounding of all RAF aircraft fitted with the rocket-actuated Martin Baker Mk 10 ejection seat, according to the BBC. The suspension is expected to last for days, not weeks.
Cunningham was a veteran of multiple tours of Iraq, an alumnus of Nottingham Trent University, and had been with the RAF since 2000. He flew with the 617 Dambuster Squadron based at Lossiemouth.
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