People   (Re-unions, trace old friends and relatives.)

Do you know what, chip pon mon? That's exacvtly what I suggested to him, as I knew, being of an engineering background, about pilot circuits (I also know that they can be defeated for ease of the job), (if in doubt, short it out!), (isolate and check!), (Golborne Colliery explosion,1979?) .
However ........
he came back with, "yes, well,it was. What happened was, the machine had a pressurised charge ready to operate and me wiping it, with my hand, caused it to operate".
Of which there is a possibility. Regardless, he definitely had no fingers left!