Originally Posted by
DaveJ75
Completely agree with you and Easy Street.
CI or not, there was an unchecked atmosphere in which a display pilot could nibble away at the margins until the inevitable happened. This accident had already been happening for years already and no-one really did anything about it. Frankly, I thought the CAA, and to a lesser degree, the airshow supervision, were jointly culpable to some extent.
And the disaster that was Shoreham was preceeded only a month or so earlier by the Gnat crash at Carfest at Oulton Park, that by luck didn't also result in ground victims.......and also left a question regarding pilot experience and currency.