A former Royal Navy pilot and Falklands veteran who died when a Spitfire he was in crashed had taken a cold and flu remedy, an inquest heard today.
Norman Lees, of Pine Trees Close, Copthorne, a senior Jumbo Jet training captain with Virgin Atlantic who served with the Duke of York in the Falklands, had taken a preparation containing diphenhydramine before going up in the Second World War fighter.
Mr Lees, 49, was training the Spitire's new owner Gregory McCurragh of Durban, South Africa, at Goodwood airfield in West Sussex on April 8 last year when the plane crashed, killing both men.
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