does anyone remember the Red Arrows plane crashing into the sea off Brighton?

[Big Jim]

back in the late 70's.



He was flying low

I didn't realise having your zipper down could cause such carnage.

 

[clippedgull]

I was living just off the seafront then near Eastern Road, heard the bang then about five minutes later smelt kerosene. Realised something must be wrong, hotfooted down to the seafront to be told that a Red Arrow had crashed

As for disbanding, Tony has said that it's not going to happen

I'm looking forward to seeing the Reds performing at the International Air Tattoo this year alongside the US equivalent The Blue Angels

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Re: Re: does anyone remember the Red Arrows plane crashing into the sea off Brighton?

I didn't realise having your zipper down could cause such carnage.

It does when you have a gay navigator.

 

[Bakesy]

I was only about 12, went to watch with a friend from school called Edric, must have been late 70's.

I take it he was a slow learner then?

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

I also saw it.

Red Arrows were almost an annual show in Brighton but they've hardly been back since.

 

[Gritt23]

I was there, but somehow missed it happening. The first I realised was when they flew overhead at the end, all in formation, but there was a gap. I was stood just on the West side of the Palace Pier, and perhaps it was obscured from our view, because no-one around us seemed to realise what had happened.

 

[NMH]

Yep. Big splash. Glad.....no, extremely glad that no-one was hurt. I saw it miss the packed Pier by not very much, then the splash come up from the other side.

What was the plane worth...about a mil or something?