Do any of you "experts" know the cause of this accident?
I do, I do, pick me...
The spitfire bounced as it came in to land at Ardmore, causing the under carriage to collapse and the plane skidded for approximately 50 metres on its belly along the tarmac landing strip and came to rest on the grass, Senior Sergeant Peter Raynes said.
It doesn't matter if you were there or not.
It doesn't matter whether you are current on Spitfires or not.
It certainly doesn't matter whether you are an engineer or not, and the wx was benign.
It was a hard landing, so hard that the gear gave up. It may not be the strongest gear in the world, but I've seen quite a few Spitfires bounce over the years, and you would have to slam it down pretty hard to break the gear.
This is not unlike the Tim Wallace accident in some ways, but at least he eventually admitted that he screwed up.