The Short Answer Is……..

………… YES, it is allowed.

Escort parties to colours are a specific example where headgear remains ‘on’ not ‘off’.

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To reply to Newforest. It does not matter how your friend or enemy dies, one always respects the dead regardless of the manner of their going. During the war we always respected German dead and for the most part they receiprocated. In Northern Ireland during the troubles I’ve seen soldiers salute an IRA coffin as it passed – it’s what separates ‘civilised’ from ‘savage’.

In the books at St Clement Danes you will find suicides, an airman who killed his (serving airwoman) wife and then himself are next to each other.

As an aside, somebody with the same name as me was executed for murder but he isn’t recorded ’cause he was discharged before sentence was carried out!!

Accident Summary

The RAF Museum have a summary of the accident (I had it out myself a while ago) but I doubt that the full Board of Enquiry remains. With the type now out of service and the MODs major clearout before Freedom of Information Act, the chance of a copy surviving is slim.

I suspect the only place will be the NA.

Is there a specific aspect of the accident to this aircraft that you are interested in? You could always approach the Sqn Association for help or personal recollections.