Red Arrow plane crash

[Falkor]

One just came down in Bournemouth must be the first time i have heard of the Red Arrows crashing

 

[Uncle C]

One just came down in Bournemouth must be the first time i have heard of the Red Arrows

One crashed on Brighton seafront years ago

 

[Nottseagull]

One crashed on Brighton seafront years ago

Really? I never heard about that. But they've been going so long that it was bound to happen sooner or later.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

One crashed on Brighton seafront years ago

Remember it ,was only young and in the Royal Alex Children's Hospital after a crash of my own of my go kart-1981 i think

 

[Dr Q]

One crashed on Brighton seafront years ago

Didn't it clip the mast of a yacht that shouldn't have been moored there?

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Really? I never heard about that. But they've been going so long that it was bound to happen sooner or later.

Clipped a boat's mast & pilot had to eject if i remember(so must have been low)sheer luck it did not head inland,happened just of the Palace pier.

 

[Falkor]

I had sky news on, it popped up saying a red arrow had crashed near the Bournemouth airport and now nothing not even on there news bar.

 

[Woodchip]

Hope the pilot (and all attending Bournemouth Air Show) are safe and well.

 

[Woodchip]

I had sky news on, it popped up saying a red arrow had crashed near the Bournemouth airport and now nothing not even on there news bar.

'tis on BBC website, but only on their ticker. No further news yet.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Hope everyone managed to escape safely.

 

[daveinprague]

Was off my face on seafront when it happened in Brighton. Was surreal. Pilot ejected and plane flew over Pier and into sea on other side. Loads of people on Pier had lucky escape taking their snaps. Dont think half of them realised the pilot had left the plane.

 

[Falkor]

i guess this might mean there not going to be at Shoreham as i thought they were attending.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

i guess this might mean there not going to be at Shoreham as i thought they were attending.

be a shame as the Vulcan Bomber is grounded due to a fuel leak as well.glad i saw them last year.

 

[Falkor]

Pilot seems to have got out he landed in a river and was rescued by dog walkers

 

[Mackenzie]

Was off my face on seafront when it happened in Brighton. Was surreal. Pilot ejected and plane flew over Pier and into sea on other side. Loads of people on Pier had lucky escape taking their snaps. Dont think half of them realised the pilot had left the plane.

I was sat on the beach, by the Bedford Street stairs when it happened....saw the pilot's parachute and the plane crash. As you said it seemed to go right over the Palace Pier....so lucky.

 

[Seaber]

i guess this might mean there not going to be at Shoreham as i thought they were attending.

I think they always take a spare aircraft, so chances are they will still attend if they were due to.

 

[the munch]

they will be grounded until air crash investigations have worked out what caused this crash.

 

[Nottseagull]

Was off my face on seafront when it happened in Brighton. Was surreal. Pilot ejected and plane flew over Pier and into sea on other side.

So was the plane a write-off? Was it even recovered?

 

[Nottseagull]

I think they always take a spare aircraft, so chances are they will still attend if they were due to.

Back in the 1970s they only had ten planes, with one usually undergoing maintenance on a rotating basis. Do they have eleven now?

 

[Seaber]

Back in the 1970s they only had ten planes, with one usually undergoing maintenance on a rotating basis. Do they have eleven now?

I think they fly out with ten aircraft, each flown by one of the pilots, as well as a 'Road Manager' flying the tenth, which would be the back up plane.