Why do we need to do anything? Both accidents were accidents. Crowd safety was not an issue in either, as far as I can see from Press reports, apart from the threat to safety that follows any aircraft accident, air-show related or not, in which an aircraft comes down somewhere, out of control.
The reasons, according to the reports I have read quickly, are unknown apart from speculation about an engine failure following a bird strike in the F18.
The rules about airshow flying are stringent, work well in terms of public safety, and seem to have done so in these cases.
Last edited by old,not bold; 24th May 2007 at 15:04.