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Old 24th Aug 2015, 05:04
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aox
 
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Really? shall we get this into persective. "aircraft enthusiasts fantasies" - get real. Airshows are THE NUMBER 1 spectator sport in the UK - more go to airshows than football. Oh yeah and more fans - many more have died at football matches than airshows.
This is a horrific, tragic accident. It was 24 hours ago. 7 people died -the first at a UK airshow since the 50's. some perspective on that - 10 have died on UK roads since and another 10 tomorrow and another 10 on tuesday and so on. 10,000 a year die completely preventably at the hands of the NHS.
What about the chinese container port explosion that killed many innocent bystanders-have you stopped buying cheap chinese imports until their industries improve health and safety? Nope. Thought not.
Lets have a report - lets learn what happened and put steps into place (if needed) to try and minimise the chance of it happening again (note - minimise - not prevent - nothing is 100% preventable) but lets not vilify the airshow community for something that, whilst horrific and has a lasting effect on those involved, is still a vanishingly small risk to those involved.
I'm more worried about getting mown down by a sleepy truck driver on the M25 tomorrow than I ever will be from any aviation activity.
Unfortunately it's not a vanishly small risk that there will be accidents at airshows, though apparently it's unprecedented that people outside the site have been affected.

I think your diversionary references to risks in other spheres are inappropriate, especially when so complacently made as to be 12 or 15 years out of date.

You may happen to know that there were 10 fatalities in road accidents on some specific day, but that would not be a basis for predicting the same for each of the next few days, making out that this will never improve because people don't care enough.

The last 3 years have been the lowest 3 for road fatalities since records began.
1754 > 1713 > 1775. That's an average of under 5 per day.

Even then of course nobody is being complacent. Instead they are competitive in thinking how to get even lower.

Football as well, they've made big changes after realising how complacent things had been, so your sniping there is a bit out of date too.

Traditionally that's also the way things are supposed to be in aviation, keep improving, instead of let's have a report but hope not to be affected too much.

Let's not put you in charge of defensive PR.
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