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Old 11th Sep 2015, 06:11
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Not the first by a long way, or the last.
Well, I very much hope it is.

People seem to be forgetting that this "stunt" (and I use the word quite deliberately), killed 11 people, all of whom were where they were on their legitimate business and had every right to believe they were safe, and that some prune was not about to drop 10 tons of fuel filled aircraft on top of them.

The accident was foreseeable and preventable. The CAA's almost immediate reaction by restricting this kind of display was not "knee-jerk" reaction, but a belated recognition that it is not acceptable to put the general public at risk for the pleasure of a few.

As a fellow human being, I wish the pilot a speedy recovery, but he, and all those in the approval chain behind this very obviously dangerous manoeuvre must expect to bear the cost, judicial and otherwise.
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