Unlucky Bournemouth

[Westi]

Having a bad run down here - all to coincide with the Air Festival.
Thursday the heavens opened and forgot to close, flooding everywhere
and not good fun trying to get home. Also Day 1 of the Air Show.

Yesterday watching the Red Arrows on their last sweep from out the back of the house commenting it must be dodgy having planes right over the town, an hour later heard that one of the planes didn't make it home.
Luckily was coming in to land and the pilot took it over fields but he died.

Today it is business as usual with the show (minus the Red Arrows), but everyone to do with it must be on tenderhooks - wonder if there will be a 2012 show?

RIP Red 4.

Westi

[Primrose]

We saw them last week at another south coast air show and I'm glad we watched them because it looks as if they may not be in action again for a while. It's a tragedy. Their skill and expertise makes you proud to be British. One feels deeply for the pilot's wife and family, and also for the rest of the Arrows team who must be badly shaken by this event.

[Nature's Babe]

Very sad, especially for his family friends and colleagues. I wonder what caused the tragedy?

[KGAdmin]

Most probably a bird strike ;p The jets used have ejector seats but not ground-level ones (those which are capable of safely ejecting a pilot at ground level) - plus it seems he was trying to pilot the jet away from buildings.

A sad loss


KGAdmin

[Monika]

One of daughters with family watched the Red Arrows at the Fowey Regatta last week and were fascinated. The teenage children were therefore particularly upset when they heard of the crash at Bournemouth.