Pyrotechnic flare death - and recall

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This is a piece of kit that should NEVER fail if it is in date.

To fail is totally unacceptable regardless of cost (and they are not cheap, so even more so, they should work as designed).

The fact this killed someone is horrendous negligence / quality control.

Awful.

You may want to search YouTube for munitions that fail on firing, not just clean underpants you need but a whole drawer full.

My chemistry teacher, Mr Frost, had a weekly experiment in periods one and two on a Tuesday morning, they never worked. As a young man I worked for ICI Mond and discovered that chemists were actually very safety conscious.