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Just to finish the story. Here's a pic of the cockpit with the three controls labeled. It's difficult to see the red lines indicating each control. You can understand that if he was unfamiliar with them, or panicked, he would press or pull the wrong thing.

The stores jettison switch was covered with one of those silly stickers and not witness wired. It was very easy to accidentally knock it off. Everyone that did cockpit checks had spares in their pocket.

If you look below the "Drag Chute" label, you can see one of the armament panels. the M61 20mm gun was very accurate indeed, but suffered from barrel burnout if the pilot held the trigger down. The barrels would superheat and the armourers would have to change all six, if one gauged out of spec.

20mm barrel were only cleaned when the gun was due for inspection. That didn't happen for thousands of rounds at a time.