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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

AFAIK on the Hawk you're shot through the canopy anyway, the explosive charges that run on the canopy are meant to destroy it before the ejection sequence starts.
It would be interesting to know whether the plane was parked, just returned from a flight or was about to go for one, since one of the first thing the ground crews normally do is disarming the ejector seat by means of the safety pins (there should be 3 or 4 of them?).

yes but that's what I was saying, if it was a malfunction then the MDC probably wasn't set off, it would also be apparent that the aircraft had either not begun taxying or had just parked up..I say this because the aircraft didn't continue uncontrolled....it just looked parked up...but the canopy was closed....just missing the front section of glass.