Hurricane crash at Shoreham Air Show

[empire]

Put the shits up me when I heard the news, little bulldog is fishing at passies pond today with his mate but thankfully it's not near there.

my mate was going with his nippers their,christ,its scarey

 

[Barrel of Fun]

It may have improved Lancing had it hit the town centre.

RIP to the pilot. A crying shame he didn't have the chance to bail out.

 

[dougdeep]

A tiger moth crashed near Lingfield too. What with McRae's helicopter it was a bad day for aviation.

 

[perseus]

Can't place where the Hurricane crashed?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6996734.stm

Could be at Pende.

 

[dougdeep]

:falmerspi

Can't place where the Hurricane crashed?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6996734.stm

Could be at Pende.

No hillsides at Pende are there?

 

[Everest]

In the grounds of Lancing College.

 

[kevinsmith]

Just behind the Headmasters house

 

[Everest]

I had to take some students to the college yesterday evening. Police were up there

 

[NMH]

I was working in Chichester on Thursday when 2 planes were having a 'dogfight' overhead. It was brilliant to watch them spinning and turning away and in pursuit of each other. It lasted about half an hour.

I always think about the possibilities of such a machine losing power, and with little chance to do much in that circumstance. Human error is also totally costly there too.

It's impressive and exciting to observe people risking their lives, and I've done it myself to some extent (rock-climbing, motorcycle racing). It doesn't make it less tragic when the worst happens, all the same.

RIP that man.

 

[severnside gull]

I can remember a previous crash at the Shoreham show - must have been back in the early 70's - a bi-plane trying to burst balloons with its wing tips hit the support pole and ploughed into the ground.
Dangerous hobby flying and that is its appeal - especially with vintage machines. Waiting for some H&S prat to say that any plane over 30 or so years old can't be flown

 

[Marc]

couple of vids on youtube but nothing of the actually crash, just the dogfight then clips to smoke and aftermath

 

[Yoda]

Saw it go down from my position in the field south of the railway line, 100m away (if that) from the end of the runway.

From where I was, it looked like a sharp bank up and then stalled. Would have also explained then short delay from impact to plume of smoke going up.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Saw it go down from my position in the field south of the railway line, 100m away (if that) from the end of the runway.

From where I was, it looked like a sharp bank up and then stalled. Would have also explained then short delay from impact to plume of smoke going up.

Which field was that, the one between the Dogs trust and the railway line or the one nearer the farm ?

 

[perseus]

Which field was that, the one between the Dogs trust and the railway line or the one nearer the farm ?

Not on a hill at all.

 

[Yoda]

Which field was that, the one between the Dogs trust and the railway line or the one nearer the farm ?

The one nearer the farm. I was only about 20m from the railway line, in line with the runway (to start with).

perseus. The plane came down towards the top of the valley between the Sussex Pad and Lancing Collage.

 

[perseus]

This picture places it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/83465840@N00/1395140745/in/pool-shoreham-by-sea/

Just north of McIntyres Field.

 

[Buzzer]

I've been to 3 air shows and seen 3 crashes. All fatal.

I've vowed never to go again. Does anybody else have that sense of foreboding about them?

 

[Nibble]

I supose that is what happens when you perform death defying stunts in an old plane.

 

[Domsdad]

They ought to think more carefully before doing this WW2 stuff.
My mum and auntie were shot at by a messersmicht at Buckingham park as kids during the war. It was a nasty shock to them the other weekend to find themselves being chased by another one along Shoreham bypass.

 

[NMH]

I imagine the pilot may have been involved in this event too;

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