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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Ant1981 on 20 August 2011, 14:35
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14602900
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:angry:
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Just heard from a friend in air traffic control that the pilot is believed to have been killed :sad:
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Apparently it just dropped outa the sky when banking to come in for landing, like I said in my post (you beat me to it) this will be the governments excuse to now get rid!
It has crashed about 1/2 mile if that from my house!
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A display team is non essential, so I'm surprised they got rid of front line sqn's and kept a display sqn.
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Agreed, ive just been for a bit of a mooch, and it sounds like The pilot was having difficulties and he managed to steer away from castlepeoint shopping centre and the housing estates and ejected, but it was too late and they plucked him from the river.
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Holy f**k not cool like was looking forward to seeing them at raf leuchars asit will be the last ever ....
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Just heard from a friend in air traffic control that the pilot is believed to have been killed :sad:
Sorry but how would he know this? Is he in bournemouth ATC?
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holy fook
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Just heard from a friend in air traffic control that the pilot is believed to have been killed :sad:
Sorry but how would he know this? Is he in bournemouth ATC?
Don't be sorry.
He knows everyone (right up to ACM) and everything.
Like I say, it's 'believed', doesn't mean it's true. Not all information is released yet.
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Was watching the display down on bournemouth pier. Heard the news one had crashed when i got home. Lots of people of facebook saying the pilot died but i dont think its been confirmed :sad:
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Was watching the display down on bournemouth pier. Heard the news one had crashed when i got home. Lots of people of facebook saying the pilot died but i dont think its been confirmed :sad:
I believe it has!
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Was watching the display down on bournemouth pier. Heard the news one had crashed when i got home. Lots of people of facebook saying the pilot died but i dont think its been confirmed :sad:
I believe it has!
Where did you hear that?
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not on the news....
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Hmm, I'm sure it said so on a local news site, however it seems to have disappeared! But I have also been told by a VERY trusted source but :lipsrsealed:
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Daily mail are saying he died.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028303/Red-Arrows-pilot-killed-crash-near-Bournemouth-Airport-festival-display.html
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Thats a shame :sad:
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The MOD has now confirmed it :sad:
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RIP Red4 RAF Pilot Jon Egging
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RIP Red4 RAF Pilot Jon Egging
+1
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Dam :cry: :cry: :cry:
Such a shame :sad:
Only 33 too :sad:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8713429/Red-Arrows-pilot-killed-in-crash.html
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RIP Eggman.
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:sad:
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Such an awesome display team, got a lot of admiration for these guys!
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Such an awesome display team, got a lot of admiration for these guys!
+1 :cool:
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RIP to him. I was at work unable to go see the airshow but once in a while groups of planes and large WW bombers flew past in Bournemouth direction.
Will be going Bournemouth beach tomorrow to see the final day of the show and also for Red 4's memorial from 8pm onwards.
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I watched the display they did. Obviously moments before this happened :sad: RIP
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Been out on the bike tonight and just passed the site and interestingly enough it looks like the are recovering some or all of the wreckage tonight as "Salvage 1" and clean up crew are out in force!
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interestingly enough it looks like the are recovering some or all of the wreckage tonight
How is that interesting? In what air crash was the wreckage not recovered and endlessly analysed to figure out what happened and why it happened?
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Sorry, not having ever been involved in air crash investigation I just thought it would have been EASIER by daylight and not by the dead of night!
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interestingly enough it looks like the are recovering some or all of the wreckage tonight
How is that interesting? In what air crash was the wreckage not recovered and endlessly analysed to figure out what happened and why it happened?
It is interesting because it's unusual to people not in aviation, even interesting to some who are. And he never said airframes are never recovered, or attempted to be recovered.
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From all the news reports nobody would realise how close this is to houses either. The reality is that JUST the other side of the trees you see in the footage of the wreck in the field are lots of houses!
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Then Castlepoint a shopping complex just down the road :shocked:
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RIP, :sad:
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I'm still a bit shocked that he didn't punch out like..
Even when hitting the deck i have seen vids of people punching out...
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I'm still a bit shocked that he didn't punch out like..
Even when hitting the deck i have seen vids of people punching out...
Maybe he really wanted to try and regain control. Could have been a case of 'I'm not letting this go down'. Who knows what happened, engine flame out, g-loc, who knows.
I've always said if my plane goes down, so do I, but I don't have an ejector seat anyway!
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Missus said the chute was found in the river?
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He did eject, but he may have died from the impact of hitting the ground, or unfortunately the aircraft could've been upside-down when he ejected.
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poor bugger :sad:
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Big respect to him for flying it away from populated areas to save members of the public rather than himself. R.I.P
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shame this has happened, i think the red arrows display is amazing, first saw it as a kid and was blown away, full on respect to them
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Very bad news... :sad: