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[Rods2]

Police are reporting casualties.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34027260

http://www.airlive.net/2015/08/breaking-were-receiving-reports-of.html

[btc]

Reported that there are 7 dead and 1 critical about 10 mins for where I used to live

[Sir Tigger KC]

Am I right in thinking that's 3 crashes at airshows this summer?   

[henryd]

Absolutely tragic that it dropped onto a busy road.

[Lazydocker]

I know the area very well... Dad lives 5 minutes away and his office is on the airport.

Knowing the road very well the pilot did an amazing job of reducing the devastation by "landing" on the empty side where the traffic was being held by a red light. Had the lights been green then fatalities would almost certainly have increased tenfold.

[ronnyd]

What a classic case of ,wrong place wrong time for these poor people, massive condolences to to the bereaved families and also the relatives of all those affected. You just don,t know what life has in store for you when you leave the house in the morning.

[05omegav6]

Tru dat...

Nasty. Seemed to run away A bit as it came round from the top of the loop A touch higher or faster and he would have recovered it. That picture of the fireball from the road is quite eerie... Those marshalls? on the right seem to have absolutely no idea of their fate

Will doubtless open up the whole debate of operating classic airframes in such diplays...

[Andy H]

Tru dat...

Nasty. Seemed to run away A bit as it came round from the top of the loop A touch higher or faster and he would have recovered it. That picture of the fireball from the road is quite eerie... Those marshalls? on the right seem to have absolutely no idea of their fate

Will doubtless open up the whole debate of operating classic airframes in such diplays...

Do these display aircraft have black boxes? Are the pilots even older than the aircraft?....

I often have to use the A27 on our migrations from Cornwall to East Sussex. It is a crap road at the best of times, I wasn't aware that we were in the firing line as well

[Jimbob]

Erm, how on earth has the pilot survived that?!?!?!?!  (not that continued survival is guaranteed)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-34029764

[Rods2]

The pilot is in a critical condition in hospital, so I assume he must have ejected. The problem is that as it is an old aircraft I pretty certain from a crash at RAE Farnborough many years a go that they are 50kts / 50ft seats with other restrictions compared to 0/0 modern seats.

[05omegav6]

Can only hope that that Daimler was between jobs

[henryd]

Can only hope that that Daimler was between jobs

I thought the same thing when I saw that

[Migalot]

Possible the pilot suffered a G-force blackout at the bottom of the loop? 

[Andy H]

Possible the pilot suffered a G-force blackout at the bottom of the loop? 

I wondered that too.

[Lazydocker]

The pilot is in a critical condition in hospital, so I assume he must have ejected. The problem is that as it is an old aircraft I pretty certain from a crash at RAE Farnborough many years a go that they are 50kts / 50ft seats with other restrictions compared to 0/0 modern seats.

Nope... He was pulled from the wreckage

Possible the pilot suffered a G-force blackout at the bottom of the loop? 

Time will tell but I would say it looked like it was going wrong towards the top of the loop... My money would go on mechanical failure, possibly bird related.