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[LaserLance]

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16053735

[hercules]

ooh not good

[Plomien]

I hope the pilot made it out ok

[Entwood]

Information I have been given is that the pilot ejected OK ... have recently been sent this link whichdoes not confirm that...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14602900

Lets hope it all ends well

[aaronjb]

Information I have been given is that the pilot ejected OK ... have recently been sent this link whichdoes not confirm that...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14602900

Lets hope it all ends well

I must be reading it differently, because I don't see them say anyone ejected?

[Entwood]

Information I have been given is that the pilot ejected OK ... have recently been sent this link which does not confirm that...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14602900

Lets hope it all ends well

I must be reading it differently, because I don't see them say anyone ejected?

Other information by 'phone suggested that the pilot had ejected .. but not confirmed in any way.

Still hopeful but would have thought that a successful ejection would have been reported before now ......   


EDIT

Daily Mirror are reporting the pilot ejected but sustained injuries .... however they are the ONLY source of this information ....    :-/ :-/ :-/

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/08/20/red-arrows-jet-crashes-at-air-show-pilot-severely-injured-115875-23358997/

[aaronjb]

Hopefully they're right - there's not a lot left of that Hawk  :-/

[sotmh]

I can only wait and see the result, but hope he ejected ok and will be back at work again :-/

[Richie London]

I hope the pilot made it out ok

 

[dazzerM]

I hope the pilot made it out ok

 

 

[Debs.]

 

[aaronjb]

Sadly, he did not.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028303/Red-Arrows-pilot-killed-crash-near-Bournemouth-Airport-festival-display.html

An RAF Red Arrows pilot was killed today when an aerobatic display plane crashed after performing at an air show in Bournemouth. Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging died after issuing a Mayday call at 1.50pm.

The article goes on to say he was 'thrown clear' - so didn't eject. One imagines he stayed in to keep the aircraft clear of the village.   

[Plomien]

Sadly, he did not.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028303/Red-Arrows-pilot-killed-crash-near-Bournemouth-Airport-festival-display.html

An RAF Red Arrows pilot was killed today when an aerobatic display plane crashed after performing at an air show in Bournemouth. Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging died after issuing a Mayday call at 1.50pm.

just saw on the bbc http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14602900
 

[Entwood]

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.


RIP  Flt Lt Egging

[tigers_gonads]

First Red Arrows pilot lost since 1971 I believe  :-/

Thoughts with his family and coleauges 

R.I.P