article_snippet: The  Voyager jet was around five hours into The  Voyager jet journey from Brize Norton to Camp Bastion when the Nikon camera, used by the captain to take photographs on board, got stuck between the arm rest and the side-stick controller when the captain seat moved forward.
article_snippet: This reconstruction shows how an RAF captain's camera became wedged alongside a Voyager aircraft's joystick before an RAF captain's camera plunged 4,400ft in mid air, injurying dozens of military personnel on board .
article_snippet: The Voyager jet, similar to the one pictured, had been six hours into The  Voyager jet journey from Brize Norton to Camp Bastion when an RAF captain's camera, used to take photographs on board, got stuck in the flight controls .
article_snippet: The new Voyager jet had been six hours into The new Voyager jet journey from Brize Norton to Camp Bastion when the captain's Nikon camer, used to take photographs on board, got stuck in the flight controls .
article_snippet: The final report into the incident on February 9 last year, released last week, has now revealed that RAF captain had been alone in the cockpit and was taking pictures of the flight deck from RAF captain seat with the digital SLR camera in the three minutes before the plane dramatically plummeted.
article_snippet: the digital SLR camera had been between RAF captain arm rest and the side-stick unit which controls the aircraft's altitude, and became wedged in when his seat moved forward.
article_snippet: The digital SLR camera, used by the captain in the three minutes before the plunge, had become wedged between the captain arm rest and the side-stick unit which control's the aircraft's altitude, when the captain moved forward, as this reconstruction shows .
article_snippet: The report found that the pilot had taken 77 photographs during the flight and had used the pilot as recently as three minutes and 20 seconds before the incident.
article_snippet: the flight states that although using the camera during the flight was not prohibited, the flight use 'represented a lack of compliance with the policy regarding non-relevant duties'.
article_snippet: However, the flight also says that during the cruise stage of the flight the pilot's workload would have been low, and that taking photographs would have been a way for the captain to maintain the captain alertness.