Law , Derek Rollo (D R)

Died in air crash, when the Lightning crashed on approach into Bentwaters. Suffered a double engine/reheat fire, had tried to eject but the canopy failed to release and attempted a forced landing into Bentwaters. Unfortunately he was unable to make the runway and the almost copybook landing into a ploughed field was enough to cause the canopy to detach and the ejection sequence to commence. Regrettably the seat required both height and forward speed to enable to parachute to deploy