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Fairford is another over land as someone else has referred to as is Farnborough. Also, the Red Arrows regularly perform at events over land. As tragic as this was, wasn't it the first aircrash at an airshow that involved spectator fatalities since Farnborough in 1952. As tragic as the events...

Well that's not the way your initial posts seem to allude to. You seem to be making the point that he was just trying to save himself. Apologies if that's not the case but you might need to think a bit more how you word things.

Don't disagree with your comments, I was just making a point about the Pavillionaire implying he was 'only' trying to save himself when he knows nothing of his mindset at the time!

:facepalm: How do you know that the fact he was still trying to pull out of the loop didn't save more lives? Let's say for argument's sake that he did black out and recovered as the plane is hurtling towards the ground, what else other than trying to pull up would you expect a pilot to do?

True, but has anyone said it is impossible to do a loop at that height? Not defending him at all but if a pilot has done loops at that altitude before he might think he can manage it again. A comparison might be driving on a road. The recognized safe distance on a motorway is 2 seconds in the...

And what else would he try and do to avoid the crash. You make it sound like his thought process was something along the lines of 'if I pull the nose up I give myself a chance'. That's a massive assumption. There are numerous examples of pilots of stricken jet planes who have stayed with...

How exactly did he save himself then? He was extremely lucky to have survived the crash. Your earlier post implied that he was only looking out for himself. As for the case, seems clearly the jury were not convinced beyond reasonable doubt. That is their decision having listened to all the...