How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance

At the time, due to my background as an experienced Hawk T1 pilot (the same aircraft as the team flew), I was ordered to be on the Service Inquiry Panel and to be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) assisting in writing the final report. You see, the ‘normalisation of deviance’ is not only found within large organisations but also in tightly knit, small, unique units such as display teams and Special Forces units. I once spoke to a member of a unit tasked with assessing flying standards across all RAF squadrons and he told me that, when assessing a Red Arrows pilot, he found himself upside down at 100 ft over RAF Scampton’s runway in formation with two other jets only a couple of feet away.

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