Replica Spitfire accident at Watts Bridge 29/8/15
I witnessed the last half of this accident sequence; I heard the impact and saw the aircraft sliding off the runway on its belly. Fortunately the pilot was uninjured although the aircraft appeared quite badly damaged.
I was subsequently nonplussed to find that this was the lead item on Channel Nine's 6pm News; using such emotive phrases as "the aircraft plunged from the sky" and "the crowd fled in panic". Oh, come on Ch 9! Given the degree of damage (aircraft intact although much distortion/rippled skin evident) it can't possibly have "plunged" and I saw no evidence of people running away in terror - quite the opposite in fact.
Yet another example of the media getting it all wrong?