Plane down at shuttleworth

[stiz]

Pilot didnt make it

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pilot-dies-...155406530.html

[full]

Yeah, saw this in BBC news very sad.

[Roger]

Dh Swallow evidently. Great shame and condolences to the pilot's family.

[Naki]

It was a DH-53 Hummingbird

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-airshow.html

[Roger]

It was a DH-53 Hummingbird

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-airshow.html

Quite right...I knew it was a bird.

[Bomber_12th]

I was very sorry to hear of this earlier today. The pilot had been with Shuttleworth for quite some time, even the collection's chief pilot for a while.

[n4gix]

Somehow it seems horribly irresponsible of the owners of the Shuttleworth Collection to have even allowed this aircraft to leave the static display area. Even more so when it was only one of twelve ever made, and was the last of it's kind to be even marginally airworthy...

...this was a tragedy that did not have to have happened.

[stiz]

shuttleworth is all about keeping the old planes that didnt have a war and PR officers to make them famous flying. Its an active airfield where just about all the planes are still flying. They've been doing the same thing for donkeys years without a death. The pilots now the risks and they still choose to take them. Calling them irresponsible just screams ignorance of how they operate

[n4gix]

shuttleworth is all about keeping the old planes that didnt have a war and PR officers to make them famous flying. Its an active airfield where just about all the planes are still flying. They've been doing the same thing for donkeys years without a death. The pilots now the risks and they still choose to take them. Calling them irresponsible just screams ignorance of how they operate

Stiz, in case I wasn't clear enough, I wasn't suggesting that risking the pilot's life was irresponsible...

...but risking the last working aircraft in the bloody world is irresponsible, in my humble opinion, ignorant as it may be.