From a keen-eyed reader: I’ve found a few articles that describe her as a trainee expected to earn her wings this month and other articles describing this as a training flight, but so far no articles that include both facts and none that confirm who was flying.
Yes, I noticed a very delicate avoidance of identifying the pilot responsible for the flying the helicopter in the news articles about the recent crash.
Britain’s only female Royal Navy commando was among three crew members killed in a helicopter crash in Devon – as they are pictured for the first time. Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher, 31, died alongside Lieutenant Commander Chris Gayson, 42, and Petty Officer Owen Green, 24, when the Merlin Mk4 came down in a field just before 4am on Wednesday.
Residents hailed the crew as ‘heroes’ who ‘saved lives’ by avoiding nearby homes and a Travelodge hotel. Defence Secretary John Healey said on Wednesday that the three, who were based in Yeovil, Somerset, were ‘dedicated and highly valued members of their squadrons who embodied the best of our Armed Forces’.
Lieutenant Fisher, one of the helicopter’s two pilots who served with 846 Naval Air Squadron, appeared on the ITV shows Take Me Out hosted by Paddy McGuinness and Ninja Warrior UK. She has been described by the Royal Navy as ‘an inspiration’ to women in the armed forces, whose death was a ‘huge loss’.
It’s theoretically possible that the other pilot was flying the helicopter at the time, but we all know that the odds substantially favor the scenario in which she was flying it, she did something wrong, and her actions crashed the vehicle. The very delicacy of the reporting tends to confirm the very fact that the media is seeking to hide, and we all know they’re trying to hide it in the interests of their false god of equality.