“I walked out the gate with an aching pain where my spine had been, a headache like no other and my ears were still ringing.” I was told 22 SAS was ‘high revving’ and if a cog broke they did not have time to fix it. He said: “My final interview was shocking. He did not get a war pension until years later. He left the Army in 2000 on the advice of a military mental health boss at the time. I wasn’t treated for any of the injuries or symptoms I reported while serving.” “They are meant to have a duty of care when you are in but after that it’s is definitely a case of ‘thanks, cheerio’. Once you are out of the Army, no one cares. He didn’t even scream.” The victim would later have the leg amputated.ĭavie said: “The Armed Forces Covenant – which is meant to support serving personnel and veterans – exists on paper only. “In the process we caused a de-gloving injury. We grabbed one armpit each and we hauled him out. C was trapped, and spoke softly, which is the weirdest thing I ever saw, a man with his leg torn nearly off and he was whispering. His leg was smashed up and bleeding badly. He said: ‘My mate C was trapped by the cargo. He and his mates got out through a window. I thought I was dead and this is what hell looks and feels like.”ĭavie tried to escape through an emergency hatch but the handle broke in his hand. “It was like being in a tumble-dryer and a pinball machine at the same time. Almost instantly I got thrown back again, this time I hit the flight engineer’s seat and then the navigator’s. “I remember looking at the co-pilot, his eyes were wider than mine.
Davie, inside the plane, said: “I was thrown around the cockpit like a rag doll and smashed into the control panel.
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