Plane crashes onto A27 at Shoreham Air Show
- Thread starter Indeliblelink
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Oh fuck off. I know what I wrote because I fucking wrote it. You are obviously too stupid understand.
And it wasn't off topic to the conversation that was going on at the time, WHICH I DID NOT START, so stop fucking acting like I did.
This is fucking harassment you know. I am this close to putting in a complaint about it.
Don't bother with another of your shitty replies as I have zero interest in anything you have to say.
I've already put one irritant Ignore, would you like to be added to that list?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Rather than end up ignoring half of Urban, could you not just stop posting idiocies?
Especially on a current and somewhat sensitive thread.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Whenever Orang Utan is being irritating I just remember that he sits down to wee and it makes me start laughing!
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
He's like a Tobyjug without the charm, humility and total self-awareness.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Why? The addictive potential of low-dose (all that's needed for nervous flyers) occasional diazepam use is very low.
Prosecution should be considered. People have died, and a loose regime of controls must have some significance in this. i doubt it will happen though, for those at the top in so many areas of UK public life seem to set the rules, waive them when convenient, and walk away unscathed when things go wrong.
Hope i'm wrong on this though.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I read today that the last time there was an accident at a UK air-show which caused non pilot fatalities was in the 50s at Farnborough, and following that incident regulations were tightened up and have been tightened a few times since.
There have been UK accidents since then, including the recent one at Chris Evans's northern car show, but only pilots have been killed.
I expect the CAA will tighten regulations again, though whether that makes them liable for prosecution for this accident remains to be seen. I do expect Shoreham will have had to have had some kind of public liability insurance for the show and wonder if that would be an easier route to getting some kind of compensation for the victims families.
There have been UK accidents since then, including the recent one at Chris Evans's northern car show, but only pilots have been killed.
I expect the CAA will tighten regulations again, though whether that makes them liable for prosecution for this accident remains to be seen. I do expect Shoreham will have had to have had some kind of public liability insurance for the show and wonder if that would be an easier route to getting some kind of compensation for the victims families.
comrade spurski
Well-Known Member
Even by the internet standardsthis has been one weird arsed argument.
On topic...that was a grim accident.
I hope no rules were broken cos an accident due to just sheer bad luck is easier for survivors and loved ones of those that died to recover from
than having to cope with grief and outrage that comes from knowing that the loss of your loved ones was avoidable.
This is only my opinion and am not stating it as a fact.
On topic...that was a grim accident.
I hope no rules were broken cos an accident due to just sheer bad luck is easier for survivors and loved ones of those that died to recover from
than having to cope with grief and outrage that comes from knowing that the loss of your loved ones was avoidable.
This is only my opinion and am not stating it as a fact.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Prosecutions aren't for getting compensation for victims: they're about establishing culpability of a crime.
Compensation payments should proceed independently of any prosecution, which will in any case take quite a while to come to court - at this stage nobody knows what, if any, offence has been committed, far less who committed it.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
cue wild speculation on it being another lubitz
8ball
AV REFUGEES WELCOME
Do you have a link for that cos there's shitloads of speculation all over the place on tbe ejector seat issue.
8ball
AV REFUGEES WELCOME
Does 'not activated' mean it wasn't triggered by the pilot, or that the explosive charges on an old seat had been removed for safety reasons?
Seems open to misinterpretation either way...
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Well the article piece specifically says:
Which suggests the ejector seat was there, and was fully operational.
I suppose it is still possible that this piece is wrong.
8ball
AV REFUGEES WELCOME
Yeah, it does - cheers.
1927
Funnier than he thinks he is.
Which suggests that the pilot stayed at the controls in an attempt to avert a bigger disaster at the possible cost of his own life.
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kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
that looks like being the case - certainly in the footage i've seen the aircraft does a significant 'wobble' as it emerges from the bottom of the loop but is still decending. that could be an aerodynamic surfaces failure, or it could be an indication of the pilot fighting the aircraft in order to produce a better result than the one he see's coming.
in relation to the ejector seat, my understanding from pictures and reports is that the fuselage broke in two immediately behind the cockpit upon impact with the ground, with the cockpit/nose shooting off forward, and the rest of the airframe - and all the fuel - staying where it hit the ground. the pilot was then rescued from the cockpit by people on the ground, so the ejector seat was not activated.
in relation to the ejector seat, my understanding from pictures and reports is that the fuselage broke in two immediately behind the cockpit upon impact with the ground, with the cockpit/nose shooting off forward, and the rest of the airframe - and all the fuel - staying where it hit the ground. the pilot was then rescued from the cockpit by people on the ground, so the ejector seat was not activated.
Indeliblelink
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I think one of reasons it took so long to remove the wreckage was that they had to be sure the ejector seat didn't suddenly go off, could of killed anyone nearby.
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dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Probably a zero zero seat so could have ejected probably trying to save the plane though.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Blimey, doesn't sound like an enviable task. Hope all goes well with that.
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
tbf I personally haven't heard of any news today suggesting there is, unlike yesterday, based on what the police did say. Plod have said today though that the deaths are unlikely to exceed 11. But until the search op has been completed 100%, who knows.
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Comments on pprune were the same - ejecting to save your own life whilst having absolutely no idea where the plane would end up.
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