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Ejection seat tangled with pilot’s parachute in 2019 Snowbirds crash in U.S., military investigation finds

from Globe and Mail

Ejection seat tangled with pilot’s parachute in 2019 Snowbirds crash in U.S., military investigation finds Globe and Mail A military investigation has found that the ejection seat of one of its iconic Snowbirds planes tangled with the pilot’s parachute as he tried to escape from the aircraft before it crashed last year in the U.S. state of Georgia. The finding is contained in a summary released by the Royal Canadian Air Force on Monday. It follows similar concerns about the Snowbirds’ ejection systems after the team’s public affairs officer, Capt. Jennifer Casey, was killed in a different crash in British Columbia in May. READ MORE

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