Originally Posted by
Flying Palm Tree
It should be asked why the police/local highways/organisers did not insist that temporary traffic lights were installed away from the approach/display line so that safe traffic management could have been co-ordinated with aircraft approaching the field?
If temporary traffic lights had been installed, they would not have been where the Hunter came down.
From the accident report:
A change of ground track during the manoeuvre positioned the aircraft further east than planned producing an exit track along the A27 dual carriageway.