Originally Posted by
AtomKraft
Idle bystander.
Like you, I hope it is the last time a pilot attempts a looping manoever and finishes up piling in.
Unlike you, I know it won't be.
We can make the world a very much safer place if we all stay in our beds of a morning.
Or a teensy bit safer, and a great deal more boring by banning anything that people like you think reckless- but where do we draw the line?
This accident has 'happened' many times before, and it will happen again. Low level aeros catch pilots out from time to time.
Having a road under the aircraft when it ran out of sky was just plain bad luck. You wouldn't be squawking if it can gone in 100m away, would you?
You can slice it anyway you like, but that's about it really. At least, that's my view on it.
My point, really, is that is mechanism for reducing- not eliminating- things like this happening exists. And works.
Events like this accident are thankfully extremely rare and unusual- but it's just not possible to reduce the likelihood of a similar thing happening to zero!
So if it was just "bad luck", and therefore no culpability, and those killed were not officially spectating, who is going to compensate the families of those killed? Or is that just their " bad luck", and someone needs to say to them, sorry, but these things just happen and will continue to happen?