Miss Demeanour Crashes: ATAC Hawker Hunter Lost Off California

For sixteen years she was the most photographed privately owned jet in Britain: a Hawker Hunter painted banana yellow at the nose, fading through red and blue into deep-space black at the tail, with a scatter of stars down the fuselage. Airshow crowds called her Miss Demeanour. On Tuesday evening she went into the Pacific Ocean about five miles off Morro Bay, California, wearing grey camouflage and an American civil registration. The pilot got out. The jet did not. At roughly 6:50 p.m. local time on 22 September, the aircraft — an MK-58 Hawker Hunter registered N345AX and flown by...