I've been trying hard to stay of this thread.. but this takes the biscuit..
uninvolved people were killed as a result of other peoples entertainment
Utter rubbish. They died because of an accident.
And all the utter garbage about performing a display over a road.
Get real. It was'nt over a road, it was over an airfield. The aircraft ended up on the road by accident.
Some people seem be indulging in schadenfruede and making ill informed and grossly inaccurate claims.
The display was not over a road, it was over an airfield. People did not die beacuse of other people 'getting off' on entertainment. That is tantamount to comparaing air displays to gladiator fights .
The facts are, the display was organised and performed over an airfield. Such displays are tightly controlled and the pilots who engage in these take a huge amount of effort in not only planning the display but choreographing the entire performance.
It is tragic that people lost their lives going about their daily business, no one can disagree that, but stop with the blatant histrionics. The uninformed media read this site also.
Were the same people shreiking about banning movements over roads and bridges when Air Florida went through 14th Street Bridge ?
Were the same people shreiking about banning movements over aparment buildings when El Al 1862 went in at Schipol ?
There was no intent to ever put the lives of the public, nor that of the pilot at risk. This accident was exactly that, an accident.
Let the investigators perform their task in the professional way they under take these sad and tagic events and reach conclusions in order that revisions may be made predicated on
fact rather than histrionics.
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Over and out.