Originally Posted by
patrickal
Mike, I am not sure what video you saw, but there was no where near 24 seconds between the time the tail came off and the time he crashed. And I had the tower frequency dialed in and heard no communications at all. I realize time compresses when something like this happens, but it did happen quickly. We (my dad, brother, son, and two nephews) all thought he had dropped something from the plane as part of the show. I would say from that point till the crash was maybe 7 - 10 seconds at best.
Using the time in the control bar of the video in the above linked article it looks like about 10-11 seconds from tail separation to impact. Not sure where the 24 seconds comes from.