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Old 5th Jul 2020, 10:26
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Errors were made from the start, before any extra forces to the body were applied.
Errors were undoubtedly made - but not from the start. They seemed to have started at a point a few minutes into the display that came to be known as Point X.

Once again, you need to have been present in court to know that sort of thing. Except that, for this particular set of evidence, there was a very good local press report by Michael Drummond of the Shoreham Herald. His report ties in with my own contemporaneous notes. It refers to the evidence of Dr Steve Jarvis, a well respected aviation human performance/safety specialist. Dr Jarvis was a defence expert witness, but his credentials had been confirmed by Wg Cdr Nicholas Green, an RAF Av Med consultant, who was an expert witness for the prosecution

Dr Jarvis listed between eight and twelve inexplicable and unconnected errors made by AH. They all occurred in a period of 22-23 seconds. He said that the chances of so many independent errors occurring like that were very remote.
https://www.shorehamherald.co.uk/new...says-1-8824257

Incidentally, this also goes some way to answering Treble one’s question
Just as a matter of interest, did anyone ask in court when this CI started?
And if you want to deduce when Point X was, I suggest you look at Fig 11 of the AAIB report, and correlate it with Dr Jarvis’ trial evidence.

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