Originally Posted by
Hawk 285
Sad news indeed. Are the ejection seats in the KFIR maintained or disabled?
Maintained.
And they work - reference the ejection of my lead at Fallon in July '10

ATAC is a top notch company in my opinion. Both on the operation side and the maintenance side. Their top maintainer was one of the top guy's in charge of the East Coast Hornet RAG maintenance when I was there as an instructor. Not all - but it seems that many of the maintainers either come from Oceana or Langley.
There is no question as to the quality of aviator that Lex embodied. This mishap will be one that all aviators can learn from when the final report comes out and hope that none of us ever find ourselves in a similar situation.
USMCFLYR