Plane crashes onto A27 at Shoreham Air Show

[Indeliblelink]

This looks very nasty although no confirmed fatalities yet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34027260
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/22/hawker-hunter-plane-crash-shoreham-air-show-reports

 

[gosub]

From the Guardian piece " a second world war Hawker Hunter single-seat fighter jet."

Hope every one OK, especially the pilot, one of the few who also flies the Sea Vixen

 

[Indeliblelink]

 

[agricola]

Utterly awful scenes.

 

[Orang Utan]

Can't believe the pilot survived that!

 

[weltweit]

Feel for the innocent motorists who got caught up in that.
Hope there aren't too many casualties.

 

[5t3IIa]

That's my ancestral grounds Crash right here https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8413931,-0.2966573,19z

It's on Sky News after this ad break.

 

[weltweit]

A friend of mine will have been at that air show, hope they are ok.

 

[Spymaster]

Seven dead apparently.

 

[weltweit]

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has confirmed that there has been seven fatalities declared at the scene, one patient with serious life-threatening injuries has been transported to Royal Sussex County Hospital and further 14 patients treated for minor injuries.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-34028331

 

[Quartz]

 

[5t3IIa]

Seven dead apparently.

My bro saw it happen No confirmation of the location of our mother, who may well have been buzzing along thr Top Road in her cabriolet

edit: sorry sorry, she is fine

 

[Favelado]

Airshows strike me as having a terrible safety record in recent years.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Kinell Stella, hope she's OK. Keep us posted

 

[trashpony]

Oh shit

 

[Spymaster]

My bro saw it happen No confirmation of the location of our mother, who may well have been buzzing along thr Top Road in her cabriolet

Yes, I thought about you when I read the location. I'm sure your mum's ok.

 

[5t3IIa]

My bro saw it happen No confirmation of the location of our mother, who may well have been buzzing along thr Top Road in her cabriolet

Mother located. Bro says it was only the 3 or 4th plane in the show. He says it didn't exactly sound like it was going wrong (but they were stood next to a running helicopter) but looked like the pilot was clearly trying to pull up.

edit: nothing new ^ but eyewitness report.

 

[Favelado]

Emojis when deaths happen are really tasteless. Sorry to pick on you as it's almost everyone but it's shit that it's become okay to respond to a tragedy with a cartoon face.

Can't people type out five words to express their feelings?

 

[Ax^]

glad she is ok stella

pictures of the crash look pretty bad

 

[Steel Icarus]

Emojis when deaths happen are really tasteless. Sorry to pick on you as it's almost everyone but it's shit that it's become okay to respond to a tragedy with a cartoon face.

Can't people type out five words to express their feelings?

This is harsh, IMO. 'Really tasteless', come on now.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Glad yer ma's OK BTW Stella

 

[likesfish]

Jesus fuck just driving past and killed by a 50 year old jet fighter.

 

[Bungle73]

That's what smileys are for: for expressing emotion, which is practically impossible to do with a line of text. That's why they were invented.

Airshows strike me as having a terrible safety record in recent years.

Are you sure about that? But this does look like the sort of accident that will have serious ramifications for airshows at that location, and probably for the whole of the UK as well. I wonder what they'll be.

 

[NoXion]

Emojis when deaths happen are really tasteless. Sorry to pick on you as it's almost everyone but it's shit that it's become okay to respond to a tragedy with a cartoon face.

Can't people type out five words to express their feelings?

 

[Favelado]

This is harsh, IMO. 'Really tasteless', come on now.

I think it is. I have to accept I'm in an apparently tiny majority but I honestly feel that way. Death merits more than a shit little cartoon face. Type ten words or don't bother.

 

[Favelado]

That's what smileys are for: for expressing emotion, which is practically impossible to do with a line of text.
.

Sorry, but that's bullshit.

 

[Ax^]

bunfight about smiley's

well done people

 

[Favelado]

I'll stop. I don't want a fight. I think it's worth thinking about though. No-one ever agrees with me on it so it's me I suppose.

 

[agricola]

Are you sure about that? But this does look like the sort of accident that will have serious ramifications for airshows at that location, and probably for the whole of the UK as well. I wonder what they'll be.

Hard to see what can be done, though not having the display over the crowd anymore has stopped those disasters happening (at least here). Perhaps only allowing displays to be over completely empty (of people) areas?

 

[Indeliblelink]

Horrible, scary thing is I've sat at the junction in traffic jams when there's been air shows on in Shoreham a few times in past years. I was hoping the pilot had managed to miss the road or at least overshoot the traffic lights if they were red.