Originally Posted by
Jwscud
I think the elephant in the room is not so much airworthiness as display safety. It being an entirely foreseeable event that an aircraft crash on its display line, appropriate mitigations were not in place. AH is responsible as the commander for the handling and the aircraft crashing. He was not in any way responsible for Shoreham Airshow’s planning and risk assessment that allowed him to be displaying over a major road. IMO these are the individuals and offices who should have faced far more scrutiny from the coroner.
Indeed, and the AAIB was equally scathing about the CAA. The airworthiness aspect didn't need much scrutiny. It was cut and dried. The display aspects were more difficult, and I think airsound mentioned earlier that one key chap has passed away. But in any case, as both questions arose from the AAIB report, the court order prevented the Coroner from going there. It is that inability to discuss the main evidence that makes me nervous about placing sole blame on the pilot.