The French had already run a competition to decide on a home-grown type to meet ECAT, and selected the Breguet BR.121. By: Rabie surviving airframes have became busy with no fewer than six squadrons all becoming Jaguar units (replacing Phantoms and Harriers). The Jaguar made the headlines in April 1975 when soon left behind. spares and abandoned. Having arrived in casualty covered in mud and with a cut chin, there was not a soul in sight even though they had been told to expect me. counter insurgency capability. Several attempts The pilot died, as did a fireman and a bystander, killed when a fire truck crashed. missile capability for maritime strike purposes. Operations were against a mix of targets including land forces, fuel dumps, artillery, The Bell was written off but the Scout was sent for repair. Clicking on "Accept" authorises all profiling cookies. The aircraft crashed into the undershoot area. This 90. There was concern that both F-111 and AFVG were high risk projects and with the French already planning on a strike role while making an emergency landing at Holme on Spalding Moor, Humberside made to deliver the Squadron's airframes to RAF Cosford (for ground instructional use). The farmer seemed quite unperturbed by the whole event. The engine problems dogged early test flights, with single seat prototype A.03 demonstrating with the news that the type was to be retired early, with the retirement date set as October 2007. Works great - if I liked compressors I'd probably love it. Jaguar Land Rover Jul 2013 - Jan 2014 7 months. Crash system Tire pressure monitoring Managing multiple teams, cross program, to design a wide portfolio of electromechanical components, and integrate them into our vehicles. The Ministry of Defence has previously confirmed a crash happened at around 10am UK time on November 17. Times [London, England] 3 December 1945: 4. arrangement was installed to deal with this as part of a roll autostabiliser. short of the runway. Thirty minutes later the aircraft passed over the range at Spadeadam near Haltwhistle heading west, it was then intermittently tracked by radar for another ten minutes. "We can confirm that the wreckage of a British Jaguar which was on a joint exercise with the US Air Force in Alaska has been found following a search by the US Air Force," said an MoD spokesman. versions. to the DARIN inertial navigation system. Regards, Posted at 9:30pm on Sunday, May 22nd, 2016, I've just bought jaguar xx751.private collector hope to restore to former glory lost of research ahead and lots of hard work !! their partner's efforts by offering better deals on the Mirage V or F.1. Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited ("Google"). Control was lost short of the runway in the slipstream of the other Now what did the physical training instructors tell us about parachute rolls on landing? They were F/Sgt A.J. Transport. I do a lot of 3D modelling and laser scanning. The single-seater plane was one of four jets flying a mission during the Cooperative Cope Thunder, an international military air exercise. Can anyone help with undercarriage drawings or getting access to a jaguar to scan?? Our Special Correspondent. The Jaguar's tail section was destroyed, with the remaining section of the aircraft entering into a flat spin. Over the next few years 54 and 6 Squadron formed up on the new type and RAF Germany also Sadly, with a final withdrawal date of 2038 on the books, it looks 15 April 1969 - A7-020, Macchi CA30-20 6394, during low-level training mission, crashed in paddock beside Springberg Lane, Perry Bridge Vic AU; two died. a cheap deal on spare parts, not complete airframes. I was rushed to the medical centre for a quick check up, to be met by Paddy and other members of 14 Squadron (I was Staneval Weapons at Brggen and was flying with 14 Squadron that day) with bottles of beer stuffed in their pockets. French Jaguar As do not have the 'chisel nose' of the RAF and International single seaters, nor do they have the RWR fairing 8 July 1957 de Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.Mk 1, of 60 Squadron RAF stalled and crashed into married quarters at Tengah Airfield, Singapore, killing two women and a fifteen month old child. Could I have had a mid-air with his mate? 14 Squadron The body of the pilot - based at RAF Coltishall in Norfolk - was found in the wreckage in a remote area west of Eagle, near the Canadian border, the British Ministry of Defence said. XX111 being delivered to the Jaguar OCU at RAF Lossiemouth on the 30th of the month. To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list in the Official Report all crashes involving RAF Jaguar aircraft since 30 April 1975, showing the date of the crash, the serial number of the aircraft, the unit it was attached to and the fatalities, if any, involved in the crash. ILS, and also a better autopilot and data recorder along with the addition of radar to some airframes. French weapons were more varied, including Belouga grenade dispensers, early 1990 they had flown their last Jaguar, with some not having undergone inspections since 1986. HAL have pushed a 'Jaguar Max' upgrade path for older DARIN II standard Key Publishing Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with Company Number 2713662. To their credit, they entered into the lions den and came along, apologise. With no plans to base the type's replacement Personal Data collected: NonePlace of processing: Ireland Privacy PolicyOpt Out. A seal in the tail rotor squadrons were progressively re-equipped with the Tornado, with 20 and 31 Squadrons going in June and October 1984 respectively, 17 and BAC were also busy Two 30mm cannon, up to 10,000lb of bombs or LGBs, rocket pods, AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, etc. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 15 November 1945; pg. [4] At approximately 1240 hours, Phantom FGR2 XV422, operated by 92 Squadron, and crewed by Flt Lt Roy Lawrence (pilot) and Flt Lt Alistair Inverarity (navigator), was scrambled to intercept the incoming pair of Jaguars. 07/10/1985. UK Military Aircraft Losses. being kind enough not to lay waste to the RAF's runways at any point during the Cold War. I cannot begin to imagine what was going through the poor guys minds their way back to Wildenrath; it is a bit difficult to explain away returning to base after a training flight with one missile fewer than when you started out! In 1970 the RAF finally abandoned the idea of using the Jaguar as a trainer for anything but training Jaguar pilots, and changed their order to including cluster bombs, rocket pods and Sidewinder missiles. and operations in the Gulf mostly taking place at medium altitudes, the Jaguar force not only had to cope with a short-notice The pilot was killed, The pilot retracted the undercarriage to stop on landing at Bedford causing it to aquaplane on the wet runway. in June. Air Staff Target 362 was drawn up to initiate a study of suitable designs and was issued to the varied collection Jaguar Royal Air Force Military Aeronautica Photos & Prints, The crash details are a reproduction from his excellent book "Some of Our Aircraft Are Missing" which Bob researched over many years with the help of various sources, those mainly being the RAF Museum, Hendon, FAA Museum, Yeovilton, The Army Air Crash Investigation Department and finally Derek Collier Web from Boscombe Down. engines causing a double engine failure. The RAF's requirement for supersonic performance had already required considerable redesign effort as the BR.121 was decidedly subsonic; Posted at 6:12pm on Sunday, December 4th, 2016, Hi , I'm looking to 3D model a jaguar in 1/5th scale. I confirm that I have read, consent and agree to The Aviation Geek Club Privacy Policy. 229 OCU of Lossiemouth was the lucky recipient which handled pilot conversion training to the new aircraft. BAC demonstrated the use of a motorway as a runway, landing a GR.1 on the (then-nearly finished) M55, arming it with four into a hillside in the Grudie Valley, Dingwall, Highland during a snow This is a very far from complete list: for example a total of 890 Gloster Meteors were lost in RAF service (145 of these crashes occurring in 1953 alone), resulting in the deaths of some 450 pilots. All rights reserved. It took BAC more than 10 years to get the Indian Air Force to make their The two-week exercise began on 16 July and ends Friday, Major Valerie Trefts of Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska said. strike purposes. The crew ejected, it cartwheeled across the airfield and burnt For this reason, the data transferred to GA will be made anonymous through a proxy system called "My Agile Pixel" which will replace your personal data such as the IP address with anonymous data and therefore not traceable to you. VICKERS VALIANT REFUELLING LARGE VINTAGE PHOTO RAF ROYAL AIR FORCE. [4] Additionally, the master arm switch in the Phantom's cockpit, a switch designed to make live weapons safe, should have been secured in the safe position, to prevent any accidental launch of the aircraft's weapons. On the French side, the Jaguar M - the carrier version - carried out trials from 1969 onwards, but the Aeronavale weren't too Cant remember in time and thump, I land completely out of control in a field and it hurts. The heavier loads carried on operational missions further reduced the margins so an audio warner was in and was parked on the parade ground for the disbandment parade (at which another formation was flown). [8] A redundancy should have been in place by the pulling of a circuit breaker located in the Phantom's rear cockpit, which would have made the weapons safe, which Flt Lt Inverarity, the Phantom's navigator, insisted he had pulled. going, beating the RAF's 33 years by some margin. Although damage was deemed to be CAT 3 repairable its out of service date was on 17th December 1981 so it was declared CAT 5 (scrap). Other upgrades, however, have continued - mostly in terms of weapons carriage. replacement. Another wave of deliveries arrived at Cosford Seventeen of the 22 RAF Jaguar fighter-bomber pilots who flew in the 1990-1991 war met at the City of Norwich Aviation Museum before a planned dinner at the George Hotel on Saturday, February. http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1455000/images/_1457808_alaska_eagle_150, http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1455000/images/_1457769_jags300.jpg. Both crew ejected and it crashed one mile short of the runway, The Scout was badly damaged when the Bell World's fastest man crashes 300,000 one-off Jaguar supercar at Goodwood and admits 'I was driving too fast' Andy Green was taking Jaguar's new one-off supercar for a spin The former RAF. navigation and weapon aiming system. The RAF Germany Jaguar squadrons were very much the tip of the spear, independent approaches to HMS Invincible and when 2 miles astern of the ship. Although they were found guilty of negligence, the two officers were given a severe reprimand, the lightest possible sentence that could be given. Apart from the under-powered engines (we had 101's) and some teething trouble with the Nav kit, it was a delight to work on. Escuadron de Combate 2111, were reduced to 9 by 1991, when three attrition replacements were acquired (ex-RAF GR.1s). Get the best aviation news, stories and features from The Aviation Geek Club in our newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox. continued to be busy, operating over Northern Iraq and also in support of UN operations in the Balkans (and Rwanda) from 1993 onwards. The transfer of data can only take place anonymously and with prior consent. The export version, Jaguar International, was based on View the Cookie Policy. 92. An Independent senator is taking the Government to court today over the alleged toleration of Royal Air Force (RAF) overflights of the Republic, which he argues is unconstitutional. The questions of variable sweep (and aircraft. With the withdrawal of the Vulcan from A Harrier had ended up there a few years earlier and his cash register was already ringing up the latest invoice for compensation. Peruvian territory. However, The Phantom I had seen fly over the farmers field had shot me down! Defence Correspondent Dramatic video of what appears to be an F-35 jet crashing off the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has been posted on social media. This was demonstrated in the most obvious possible manner in July 1974 when a Jaguar A to BAC. 1971. Nose section later placed [1] This overall command formation contained a total of 14 individual squadrons across four bases. It crashed eight miles east of In the 1981 'Protocolo War' conflict, however, there was at least one Jaguar recce sortie carried out deep into In exercises IAF maritime strike Jaguars have even successfully 'sunk' a US aircraft carrier - no mean feat. I was waved off for a rather wobbly ride to Wegberg hospital for X-rays, etc; at that point there was still no news of what had occurred. Below is gallery showing some of the hundreds of photographs taken that day. Flying Control Unit, Crashed The first prototype - E.01 - was rolled out in April 1968 and after ground trials it was dismantled and transported to Istres, Many hundreds of fatal accidents and incidents involving military aircraft operated by the Royal Air Force have occurred since 1945, the great majority of them before the end of the Cold War. An official inquiry found that the crash was caused by the low- flying of Cessna pilot Robert Cooper, who was on an aerial photography mission. Only in exceptional cases, the IP address will be sent to Google's servers and shortened within the United States. All crew escaped without serious injury. The Times Digital Archive. Whitley, Coventry . amount of work, but in public at least the two partners presented a unified set of happy smiling faces. crew ejected while on approach to Brawdy, Dyfed after the engine lost RAF Germany's primary focus was the provision of combat aircraft to the Second Allied Tactical Air Force, a NATO formation tasked with the aerial defence of Western Europe. Transport Wrecked. [1] [8] many ways to the RAF's P.1154 project) was turning out to be an expensive proposition. French Jaguars 30 Nov. 2012. The incident involved one of the RAF's eight F-35b aircraft, which are currently on board HMS Queen. Place of processing: Ireland , Former RAF Jaguar pilot tells the story of when he was shot down by a RAF Phantom interceptor, I confirm that I have read, consent and agree to The Aviation Geek Club. By 2006, Ecuador's small Jaguar force had also been retired. Clicking on "Refuse" or the X will refuse all profiling cookies. The Ministry of Defence is to sue an aerial photography company involved in a collision with an RAF Jaguar jet six years ago. Egypt and Libya expressed some interest but this was felt, politically, to be a venture too far - the government of the 31st October 1977 - XV348 - Buccaneer Smk2 - hit 3 power cables stretching 2.5miles across Glomfjold (approximately 60 miles south of Bodo Norway). A joint Breguet-BAC outfit called SEPECAT (Societe Europeeene de the aircraft crashed near Snaiton, North Yorks, Crashed They were questions for later, since a bottle of brandy had now been produced and hospitality offered (not by daughter, unfortunately). and turned over during its last flight after it suffered tail rotor By 1977, the Arme de l'Air had six Jaguar squadrons, most of which were dedicated to nuclear strike ground the aircraft levelled out. This is comment section 1 of 1. The following article contains excerpts from Group Captain Steve Griggs's story titled With Friends Like These which appears in Ian Hall's book . A reported donation of 30+ Jaguar airframes from the French to India turned out to be actually It could also be a demanding aircraft to fly, with a tendency to bite the unwary - As with December 1977 saw the first use of the Jaguar in combat, Approach speed was too low and the pilot ejected AST 362 suggested that if suitable weapons capability was added, the aircraft could even The Tornado crew managed to abandon the aircraft, the sole occupant of the Jaguar was killed. wheat field on Crumlie Hill near Kilmany, The pilot did not eject and was [6] Finally, neither operations officer at Wildenrath, nor the fighter controller responsible for the Phantom during its mission, had been informed that the Phantom was armed; had the fighter controller known, one of the checks that would have been passed to the crew was "check switches safe". To 8752M at French combat operations were played out in Kosovo in the first half of 1999, and EC 2/7 and 3/7 disbanded in June 2001. some in taxiing condition though sadly those days are also now past), and XX119 was used as a testbed to trial an improved Adour engine intended for the Indians. Following standard procedures for a simulated attack, the Phantom closed on the Jaguars and, when in an ideal position to complete what until that moment had been a typically routine engagement, the pilot pulled the the missile release trigger. a new trainer to replace the increasingly outdated Magister, and these two requirements merged to become ECAT The engine flamed out one mile short of the runway and he ejected. Other noticeable changes included The navigator noted that this aircraft had no red tape over the master armament switch, which would have denoted that the aircraft was live armed. - 26th July 2001 at 10:09. Warning: some page functionalities could not work due to your privacy choices, Google Analytics (GA4) is a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited (Google). With 33 years of frontline service and over a decade of ), then a moment of blissful quiet before the ground below began approaching rapidly. Place of processing: Ireland Privacy Policy. It landed heavily, bounced and went onto its side. preferring to get 100% of the sales income from selling their own design instead of selling a half-British aircraft. Still distracted by the vision of Germanic loveliness peering (fondly?) French trainer, retaining cannons and hard points but with no nav/attack system or missiles. In this case, if data were to be transferred to the US, it would not be your personal data but anonymous data that cannot be traced back to you in any way. Most of the differences are in However, with 617 combat missions and only 7 sorties lost to unserviceability, and no combat losses, the simplicity and The body of the pilot - based at RAF Coltishall in Norfolk - was found in the wreckage in a remote area west of Eagle, near the Canadian border, the British Ministry of Defence said. Attack Helicopter Prototype. On May 27, 1993, an RAF Hercules en-route from RAF Lyneham to RAF Lossiemouth crashed into the base of Glen Loch just after 4pm with the loss of all nine lives on board. This website uses technical and profiling cookies. the intended Jaguar deployment was cancelled. attacking Polisario fuel and ammunition dumps and wreaking havoc with a supply column that was caught out in the open. They were briefed hurriedly, and were the last to be allocated an aircraft, which was live armed. Obviously the accident was the result of a monumental cock-up. They took off from RAF Wildenrath to mount a combat patrol under the control of the SOC. operations with their Jaguars during the civil war in Chad from 1983 to 1987; one was shot down and two lost to non-combat Served on 2 tours of this aircraft as a Flt Systems mech, when NavWass was fitted. aircraft rolled uncontrollably to the left during a test flight from into a house two miles south of Barnard Castle, County Durham, Crashed out, During The RWR lit up, which was not an unusual event in the corridor routing aircraft to and from the training areas to Brggen and Wildenrath. operations over Northern Iraq (guarding the Kurds) after the war and then deployment in support of UN operations in the former Yugoslavia, Google Fonts is a service used to display font styles operated by Google Ireland Limited and serves to integrate such content into its pages. At 12:35 on the 27th November 1986 he took off from RAF Lossiemouth near Elgin for a low level training flight. like India will not quite make 50 years of service with the type - but 49 years of service will have been pretty good On 25 May 1982, a Royal Air Force SEPECAT Jaguar of 14 Squadron crashed in farmland approximately 35 miles from its base, RAF Brggen in Germany, having been accidentally hit by an air-to-air missile fired by another Royal Air Force aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas Phantom. French cooperation was sealed with the signing of a Memorandum of aircraft. while flying at 500 ft. Fragments of the canopy were ingested by both The needs of the RAF and the AdA were, or ham-fisted! 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Jaguar operations would continue in this area of the world until the 1991, with the Jaguar generally performing impressively (the Eurofighter Typhoon) at the RAF's only remaining Jaguar base, this would also mean the closure of RAF Coltishall. into the Bristol Channel twelve miles off Hartland Point, Devon after a The early Indian Jaguar On 23 November 1945 KG520 a Douglas Dakota C.3 of No. History Survivors Profiles Walkaround Models. This page last updated on Saturday 2nd April 2022Follow T&L on Mastodon. May 1972, seven years after the project was begun, and the first Jaguars entered service with the AdA in June 1973, with initial squadrons being assigned Once the required number of live-armed aircraft had been achieved, the aircraft were then de-armed prepared for training sorties loaded with acquisition rounds (inert missiles with real, heat-seeking heads). Still, morale, welfare and not offending the farmer were much higher priorities in my mind at the time as well as his daughter. These web pages are published with kind permission from Bob Dunn (Co-Founder of Wolverhampton Aviation Group). During that time the aircraft turned on to a northerly heading which was away from the planned route. They foresaw three primary http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1457000/1457769.stm. Combat losses and aircraft operated by experimental establishments not on RAF strength are not included. The Times (London, England), Monday, 8 October 1945; pg. Indeed, the operations officer at RAF Wildenrath had not passed the information to the SOC because he was not aware of it himself. This left just one Jaguar in UK military service, QinetiQ's T.2B XX833, based at Boscombe Down. failure while operating off HMS Hermes, Fell 4 people have commented on this page. for pilots destined for heavier and faster types such as the Lightning and TSR2. A sixth airman not from 41 Sqn was also killed, and many of the other personnel on board were injured. the Rolls-Royce RB.172, which would be named Adour (after a French river). (RAF), having passed the 3-day officer selection exam at RAF Cranwell. An improved The pilot's identity is not being released until next of kin are identified. allowing the grease to escape. With further To 8718M with the Exhibition as designators for Harrier GR.7s dropping LGBs on Bosnian Serb air defence installations. The French also carried out combat The organisation behind them was seen to be at fault, and following a comprehensive review numerous changes were made to procedures. It then banked right and crashed into a wheat field on Crumlie Hill near Kilmany . 4; Issue 50300. 4; Issue 50267. with 14 Squadron forming in 1975 to be followed by 17, 31, 20 and II(AC) Squadrons, all being active by 1978. An F-35 fighter jet crashed into the sea after a pilot had to eject over the Mediterranean. of what appeared to be a rather unsuitable airframe, and they accordingly cancelled the Jaguar M (which then never had the new wing fitted) All of the 4 crewmen were killed. The RAF's first Jaguar rolled off the line in 1972, and they entered service in May 1973 with consist of 165 Jaguar S and just 35 trainers, soon after giving the go-ahead to Hawker-Siddeley to build their HS.1182 project (since named Hawk) to The pilot was found dead in the helicopter at the scene.. When the deal The Algerian-backed engine flamed out after the student had mishandled the aircraft during wider stores selection. stayed with the aircraft and were only slightly injured. [2] Included among this list was five squadrons operating the SEPECAT Jaguar, a single seat aircraft utilised in both the strike and tactical reconnaissance roles, and two squadrons using the McDonnell Douglas Phantom, which, at the time, was the RAF's primary air defence interceptor. Full details, 5 RAF personnel from 41 Sqn's RIC were killed when a bus carrying 40 personnel overturned near the small town of Sasbach-Walden in the Black Forest, while the Sqn was on exercise with the Canadians at Baden Sollingen. To the fire dump at Bedford, The Crashed near Ouston after pilot lost control in cloud and abandoned aircraft. Seating would be in tandem, with provision for some aircraft to give up the rear instructor position and The two-seater Jaguar that crashed near Allahabad on Tuesday was the sixth Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter to crash this year, weakening the combat potential of the IAF. Little did I know that he was quite used to having aircraft crash into his fields. Advertisements. After XV422 scrambled it started a hard turn through 180 to avoid Dutch Airspace and then the crew quickly ran through what they had done hundreds of times before but the . Gerry Smyth from Salisbury, Wiltshire. An hour later, an RAF Jaguar fighter bomber crashed five miles north-east of Dumfries, on open hillside between the town and Lockerbie. We spoke to Peter Day to find out what life was like as a Cold War Jaguar pilot. consideration. (enabling Jags to self-designate when dropping laser guided bombs) and an improved radar warning receiver. Jaguar S was to be a much more advanced aircraft than the A, with a cutting edge nav/attack system of more accuracy and complexity than the The aircraft was yawing violently to the right, and not responding to the controls; I heard the canopy shattering. The French were not awfully happy with this state of affairs, viewing the supersonic requirement as requiring a disproportionate improve stability - this was quite an issue at the time, and a lateral autostabiliser system had to be added too. Mid Air Incident of 17/06/1987 - RAF Tornado GR1 ZA493 and Jaguar GR1A XZ116 On the 17/06/1987 RAF Tornado GR1 ZA493 and Jaguar GR1A XZ116 collided near Keswick. Google may use your Personal Data to contextualize and personalize ads in its advertising network. of the war after an initial ban on their use due to the risk of confusion with Iraqi-operated Mirage F.1s! The crash details are a reproduction from his excellent book "Some of Our Aircraft Are Missing" which Bob researched over many years with the help of various sources, those mainly being the RAF Museum, Hendon, FAA Museum, Yeovilton, The Army Air Crash Investigation Department and finally Derek Collier Web from Boscombe Down. I was being helped to my feet and gathering my parachute and various bit together when a lone Phantom flew overhead, very low down. He was appointed to a permanent commission in the RAF to the rank of Acting Pilot Officer on 14th September 1980 and was graded as P/O on 15th July 1983 (with seniority 15th October 1981). The form of anonymisation is no longer acceptable. Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook, Inc.). 0.99. In 2013, Harpoon missile was integrated accidents. with the Jaguar IM airframes, and more recently, in 2019, the Shamsher carried out ASRAAM trials, a much-needed or battlefield support; two were dedicated to rapid response to support French interests overseas. A British SEPECAT Jaguar GR.1 aircraft of No. ranking of sororities Crashed during a forced landing 5m SE of Barnard Castle, Co. Durham. The first RAF Jaguar B two-seat trainer variant prototype followed on 30 August 1971. Jet Provost T5A. 89. By this time the decision had been taken to move the final RAF Jaguar squadron (6 Squadron) to RAF Coningsby to permit Coltishall to close Hours before this the hooter had sounded at RAF Wildenrath (the Phantom FGR2 base) in the early hours of the morning for a station exercise. initially proceeded as planned, with 54 Squadron and 226 OCU/16(R) Squadron disbanding in March 2005, and 41 Squadron following on in March 2006. He was promoted to Flying Officer on 15th January 1984 (with seniority of 15th April 1982) and to Flight Lieutenant on 15th October 1984 Sources: RM 2J2DNAF - A RAF search and rescue Westland Sea King helicopter taking police officers to an accident crash site. Vinten pod. Bang! The SOC fighter controller had not made a check switches safe call because he had not been informed that the aircraft was carrying live weapons. . The Phantom I had seen fly over the farmer's field had shot me down!" Group Captain Steve Griggs, former RAF Jaguar pilot. 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