OT: Plane crash at air show in the UK today....

[Ten Thousan Marbles]

There are a set of videos taken by witnesses here, so don't quit after the first one.

I am not a pilot, but the first one makes me wonder if the pilot blacked out.

 

[psu00]

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There are a set of videos taken by witnesses here, so don't quit after the first one.

I am not a pilot, but the first one makes me wonder if the pilot blacked out.

Last I heard it crashed into a highway. 7 reported dead.

 

[BobPSU92]

There was a crash at an air show in the U.K. just a month or two ago.

 

[wjb78]

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There are a set of videos taken by witnesses here, so don't quit after the first one.

I am not a pilot, but the first one makes me wonder if the pilot blacked out.

That's possible when loading the airplane up hard in a maneuver like that, but it didn't appear to be an excessively tight pull (though not familiar with that a/c). More likely he never achieved the required altitude to complete the maneuver in the first place. Years ago a USMC Col did the same thing at a U.S. airshow in an F/A-18, smacked the ground at the bottom of the loop, though he survived.

 

[psu00]

That's possible when loading the airplane up hard in a maneuver like that, but it didn't appear to be an excessively tight pull (though not familiar with that a/c). More likely he never achieved the required altitude to complete the maneuver in the first place. Years ago a USMC Col did the same thing at a U.S. airshow in an F/A-18, smacked the ground at the bottom of the loop, though he survived.

Pilot here was apparently pulled from the burning wreckage and is in the hospital now.