I am stunned. As far as I know no member of the public has died in an accident at a British Air show since Farnborough in 1952 when 25 people died after a prototype jet crashed into the crowd. Since then our planes don't display over the crowd line. You know vintage aircraft are dangerous in the way that going to motorsports events are dangerous but you don't expect anything like this. I just cannot believe that here, with our safety record this can happen. My heart goes out to the families and friends of all the victims.
I had fantastic ride today, went out on my modern Vespa 300 heading for a Steam Rally (I can carry a change of clothes, it's a lot more versatile than my Daytona) didn't bother reading the flier properly and found there was no steam rally at Kemble when I arrived, but there were a lot of cars in the layby opposite the airfield so I asked what was going on when I turned around to go home " The Vulcan is doing a fly by" I waited for half an hour for the Vulcan to appear. At about 3.40 she arrived from the direction of the M4 trailing brown smoke, she ran low across the old runway at what looked like 100s rather than 1000s of feet then turned to show the camouflaged top side. Rode home thinking things don't get much better than that, one of those sights that is going to live with you always. Then I see the news tonight. This has really knocked the stuffing out of me, I just can't believe carnage on that level could happen here, we are so careful. I am a through and through petrol head but old planes are my real passion. I hope this awful incident doesn't cause so sort of public knee jerk outrage
