Originally Posted by
22/04
I think people were a little less sensitive in days of yor - maybe WWII with its losses were fresh in the mind. Remember at Farnboro' in 50s when John Derry was killed Neville Duke immediately took the Hunter up - and the show went on despite crowd casualties. - similarly it went on when the Atlantique crashed in '68. Stiff upper lip.No judgement- just fact.
Sorry about this thread drift, but I think the Farnborough cases you cite were not insensitivity but were deliberately done as a way to keep the crowd there, as otherwise their mass exodus would have blocked all the access roads which needed to be kept clear for the ambulances.
Similarly at Le Mans in 1955 the race continued to its scheduled end.