Interesting article by Rob Davies in the Weekend supplement of today’s Guardian (not a paper I read very often, but I had read all the rest!) about the crash.

He said that the Skyraider pilot “freely admitted” that it was his fault because he had turned too sharply and lost sight of BBD.

Rob also said that he was at about 250 ft when he finally got out (my initial guess – from a long way away – was 200 ft) whereas other estimates have said about 400-500ft, and then hit both his arm and his helmet on the tail-plane of BBD as he dived past it. As has been said before, “lucky man”, but very well practiced in getting out of planes!