My father, who flew with the RAF in WW2, described an incident where someone got "shot down" in a Link Trainer. He told me that they had a Link Trainer at an RAF Air Base, and one day while one of the trainees was using the trainer, a Luftwaffe plane strafed the base and hit the pneumatic system. The system was damaged in such a way that the box containing the trainee went into a "spin" before "crashing".