daviee

Plane crash at air show 2nd crash this month at a show, not a safe place for to take your kids. RIP to the 7 dead.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34027260

Turbohot

Oh, my!

Soup

ALi-B

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I think thats not the case if you actually go to the airshow itself to watch it in the allotted spectator areas. From reading it looks like it crashed outside of the spectator areas. Still tragic none the less.

Having been to Waddington a number of times, both as a paying spectator and as a cheap skate....the latter was parking up by a field and watching it in the same fields as they were performing the display over. If something went wrong...it would be these fields they would crash into, not in the spectator areas by the actual airfield.

So if you went as a paying spectator, I think you'd have to be extremely unlucky; the last time public were killed at such an event was in the early 1950's (Farnborough). The big risk is if you loiter in the surrounding areas where you can get close to the action and watch it for free.

Although I would understand that a parent wouldn't like to explain to their child what they had just witnessed was someone being killed, but that can easily (and more likely) happen in the average high street when someone crosses a road without looking.

silver-sub

Wow that's shocking.
Thoughts go out to all concerned.

Dirk Diggler 75

R.I.P.

ScoobP1

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Very shocking!

Thoughts to the families of all killed.

Reef

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We were going to head down there today but decided to go tomorrow.
Where the plane hit is a very busy set of traffic lights, I know I've sat at them many times.

I can't believe this has happened again, I remember the Hurricane smashing into the hill less than half a mile from here a few years ago.

RIP

YODI

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As an Aircraft engineer and Pilot myself (light aircraft) I hate seeing news like this, Airshows are safe these are unfortunate accidents.

Full video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvHp...ature=youtu.be

tarmac terror

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According to the beeb the pilot remains alive but critically injured. Horrendous accident.

mart360

I was at the show and saw it happen.

I have pictures of the Hunter doing the loop, and the fireball as it, went out of sight.

Its hard to sum up what happened, its one thing to see things like this on

you tube, but very different when you see it actually happen.

A very emotional day , and looking at the footage posted of what

happened on the A27 side of the runway makes it even more tragic

we have literally only been home about 20 minutes or so!

The site was put into lockdown shortly after the crash, and only foot

traffic was allowed out after about an hour

Vehicular traffic was finaly allowed to start leaving at about 7:30 pm

We didnt make a move until 8pm, due to the sheer volume of traffic, and it

took over an hour to leave the site, there were probabaly many thousand

people still onsite after we left.

The show has been cancelled for tommorow.

I need to look at the pictures i took, as they have been asking for pictures and video to help with the investigations


mart

ScoobP1

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Still can't believe what I'm watching.

When you see the landscape, the plane crashed at probably the worst place possible.

mart360

I was at 90 degrees to the fireball.

Looking at the pictures i have, i can see the debris being thrown into the air from the fireball !


Mart

An0n0m0us

Same here and it's horrible to visualise it when you know it so well that this tragic accident has happened there. I just can't comprehend the devastation with the amount of traffic that is always there.

They are now saying they could find more bodies and it really doesn't surprise me with the size of the fireball and just how many people would have been sitting at those lights.

dpb

RIP

We were at party/baby shower for girlfriend nephew's brood . People were being first delayed and then just couldn't make it coming up from Portsmouth to ditchling, only one made it a went straight inland and round . We thought was just light aircraft downing on side the motorway

WRXrowdy

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Same here too, in fact I used to go to college years ago that was in several of the hangars located on the airport.
From pictures I have seen and reports I have read, only two cars were hit by the plane, it just narrowly missing a long queue of cars waiting at the traffic lights.

PaulC72

Such a shame, thats 2 accidents now in a couple of weeks as there was one at car fest too.

silver-sub

Another one in Switzerland. Rip

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10467856.html

Darrell@Scoobyworx

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I think how today's media is way more in your face gives much more detail much faster than in recent years. It it more of these things are happening or just we see more about them ??

mart360

We arrived at Lancing college at 10am heading eastbound to shoreham airport

My other half said "We wont be in before midday", to which, I rebuked her suggestion.

How wrong was I

We arrived 180 degrees back from Lancing College on the Westbound carrigeway way at 12:15pm.

Had we arrived one hour later, or the air display started one hour earlier, we would have been right where the plane struck.

What made it worse for the spectators in the Airport is that we all knew

that the A27 E & W, was so congested when we came in, so seeing that

happen, your thoughts were of all the cars queueing up outside.

It ws only when the news reports started to filter through, you realised the scale of the problem.

Ive had a call from the Police this morning to discuss the pictures i took, and am awating a potential further call / interview


Mart

The Dogs B******s

Awful just awful. R.I.P.

daviee

Saw the pictures in the papers today of the Daimler Limo on rout to pick up a bride. The roof totally sheared off it and paintwork scorched, shows how fragile life is the poor driver would have probably never seen it coming. Again RIP and deepest sympathy to all the family's.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...g-limo-6303375

Steve_PPP

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+1

I was about 300m back from the crash in the queueing traffic on the A27. A couple of minutes earlier and it could have been game over.

I regularly drive along that road through those lights, not looking forward to the next time knowing the awful events that unfolded there.

WRXrowdy

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My brother left holmbush with my two nephews to go home to goring just before the crash, luckily for some reason he decided to go the long way home via devils dyke.

When my wife looked on Facebook on Saturday evening there was an appeal for a man that was missing, of which one of her friends had commented on, soI guess they knew them. Unfortunately it turned out to be one of the first three people that were announced to have lost their lives.
Police now say possibly more than twenty people may have died, tragic.

An0n0m0us

For those in the area, what is the diversion like to get back onto the A27? I am heading up past there today and don't know what the traffic is going to be like or how long winded the diversion is. I will obviously be giving a lot of thought to those poor people a week on today.

mart360

As far as i recall there are two diversions

For locals & local traffic , its to use the lower road past the airport, the A259

this runs right along the coast from Bognor Regis to Brighton

If your on the A27, depending where they bring you off the A27, which i

suspoect is on the exit just before the accident site, would be to use the

A283, and loop round to the A24

And vice versa if your travelling eastwards

Will be paying my respects at 13:20 today


Mart

An0n0m0us

Thanks Mart i'm heading East along the A27.

Wurzel

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I went to an airshow yesterday, no crashes but you could have had a free hair cut

JDM_Stig

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35364481

The Shoreham Airshow will not go ahead in 2016 after a crash during last year's event which left 11 people dead.
The decision was taken primarily out of respect for those killed when a Hawker Hunter crashed on the A27 in August, organisers said.
The Civil Aviation Authority may also review its airshow regulations after the conclusion of the investigation into the crash, a spokesman said.
He said the Shoreham Airshow may still take place in 2017.