Originally Posted by
uxb99
These accidents always generate a lot of comments as to what went wrong. Everyone has `their` idea of how it happened. Of course, none of us know for sure.
Eventually the report will be published. Regulations will change how air shows are flown.
Truthfully, we will still be none the wiser as to why it really happened and powerless to stop the next. Such is the fickle nature of human frailty with an element of bad luck thrown into what is an extremely dynamic environment.
Air shows will continue.
The reality is another two aircraft and six people will be missing.
Not so. The aviation world has become much safer - since I was an air-minded child, and 707s, DC-8s, 727s and Tridents seemed to stoof in every other week, at traffic levels that were tiny compared to today - because we learn from our errors. Can we do a parade pass to bring history to the crowd, with upper and lower elements that don't try to swap places? Will the investigation find previous incidents where airplanes lost sight of one another, but mercifully not on a collision course? I'd say that's quite possible. Can we make specific changes without separating all airplanes by two miles and 3,000 feet? Probably.
The world in general and the air show circuit in particular should not see the loss of lives and historic, irreplaceable airplanes as the cost of doing business.