Here’s the Newark Hunter as it was a couple of weeks ago.

Göteborgs-Posten newspaper web site report

This evening’s G-P web site reports:
“Planen hade avslutat ett första möte i luften. Sedan intog de ett nytt utgångsläge 30-40 kilometer från varandra. Och det var i inledningen på detta andra skedet som den ena piloten plötsligt satt med högerhanden om styrspaken till det elektriska styrsystemet i ett datoriserat plan som inte gick att manövrera.”
“The two aircraft had completed their first pass in the air. They then set up a new position 30-40 km apart. It was at the beginning of this second pass that one pilot suddenly, with his right hand on the electrical control system joystick found that the fly-by-wire aircraft did not respond.”

Det gör det fjärde haveriet med ett Jas Gripenflygplan – den andra i operativ tjänst i flygvapnet – till en gåta.
– Det är öppet för alla scenarier, konstaterar Carl Hellström.
“This makes the 4th crash of a JAS Gripen – the second in operational service in the Swedish Air Force – a mystery.” “All optiona are open,” said Carl Hellström. (Chief crash investigator)”

. . . Följde instruktionerna
42-årige Axel Nilsson, med 1 100 flygtimmar, befann sig på mellan 5 000 och 6 000 meters höjd när planet blev omöjligt att kontrollera.
När han var nere på 2 000 meter utan att ha fått tillbaka styrförmågan följde han instruktionen och sköt ut sig.
“Followed standing orders”
42-year-old Axel Nilsson, with 1100 flying hours, was at between 5 000 and 6 000 m height (about 15000 ft) when he found that he could not control the aircraft.
When it had descended to 2 000 m (about 7 000 ft) without regaining control, he followed standing orders and ejected.”

Quote from the latest “Air International”:
De Havilland provided the complete (Comet) nose sections for the two prototypes (Caravelles) and SNCASE paid royalties to the British firm and its successors to build nose and cockpit sections under licence (for the subsequent production Caravelles).
(Text in parentheses by me)

No, Ja, only what I read in the Swedish press!
I imagine the official inquiry into the incident will be quite a long drawn out process, although Swedish newspapers usually have lively imaginations and are quite likely to print their own suppositions!
I’ll report anything concrete that I see about the causes.

Mike, that’s what I was going to say – “It was LFA, but you’ve already missed it!” (Shame about the weather though)

Hello, Chiefy – I was a Chief too, back in the 1970s! Yes, thank you, as I suspected the Phantom tailplane has upside down slats which answers my question.

The F4H-1 BuNo 142259 single-seat prototype lasted until 21 October 1959, when a detached engine access door caused its 295th flight to end in a blazing crash which killed test pilot Zeke Huelsbeck. Photo source: McAir. Text from “The Phantom Story” by Anthony M Thornborough and Peter E Davies.

TempestNut, I am trying to make a serious point here; how would you like to be in a foreign country (e.g. Sweden) and due to misspelling find yourself in the middle of nowhere instead of where you meant to be?
Let’s face it, Stansted Airport should be well enough known among the UK aviation fraternity to have its name spelt correctly! (Another place commonly misspelt is Coningsby).
Lesson over, off you go out to play now, and watch out for propellers, they can be dangerous!