Shoreham Air Show

[eggsarascal]

One of the resue crew told me that they use coded messages over the tannoy so the public don't get unduly alarmed.

 

Announcements asking a particular person to contact the Info desk etc.

 

I guess that makes sense - when I worked in a cinema we had to use the word 'sand' instead of 'fire' for the same reason.

 

I recently read that the daimler driver who died had let someone out ahead of him, they were the last car to clear the lights on green. He stopped on the red and then.....

 

 

It just shows that life can be a lottery - all we can do is minimise the more obvious and potentially self-inflicted problems.

 

Be safe out there.

 

We're here for a good time, not a long time.

[easy-lift guy]

It is such a shame.

 

I'm not going to speculate on the cause, but if it does turn out to be related to the warm humid day, the very thing that drew many of those people out for a trip to the seaside, ultimately caused their demise.

 

Fate is the hunter.

 

Any aircraft is designed for all weather conditions. A warm humid day had nearly as much to do with the loss of the air-craft as the casualties that were sadly in the wrong place at the wrong time. I agree with another member who was actually at the show that the engine flamed out leading to no power and catastrophic failure.

easy-lift guy

[penfold]

I remember being at Fairford when the MiGs collided in mid-air. There was no loss of life but all the cars had to use one entrance as wreckage had blocked the other. Finally got off the airfield at 11-00pm after the stewards and RAF police had filtered about sixteen lanes of traffic down to one. The cause of that was that one of the migs had lost height due to the weather that day which was very similar to those at shoreham.

 

Thoughts and prayers are with all involved.

[Ironbark]

Any aircraft is designed for all weather conditions. A warm humid day had nearly as much to do with the loss of the air-craft as the casualties that were sadly in the wrong place at the wrong time. I agree with another member who was actually at the show that the engine flamed out leading to no power and catastrophic failure.

easy-lift guy

 

Sure they are, but don't under estimate it's effect on the performance of a wing. An aircraft will perform at lot differently flying out of say Albuquerque at 5300 ft above seal level on hot day compared to Anchorage (144 ft AMSL) on cold day! I'm a pilot by the way.

 

As I said I'm not going to speculate, but there's a lot of talk about a flame out and engine failure. Thing is if you are trying to round out from a dive, you need a tight turn radius you don't want too much speed.

 

In aviation altitude is life insurance. Did he have enough (for the density altitude) to recover before hitting the ground. I don't know. Something happened (or did not), that's all be know for now.

[Ironbark]

For those interested, the preliminary AAIB report was published today.

 

S3-2015_G-BXFI.pdf