Red Arrow crashes during Bournemouth Air Festival

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Lawndart
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Red Arrow crashes during Bournemouth Air Festival

Post by Lawndart » Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:20 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14602900

Looks like the second airplane that departed the right hand side of the formation for the overhead break (for landing).


UPDATE:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... crash.html

http://bfbs.com/news/uk/mod-confirms-re ... 50825.html

Sad news. Flt Lt Jon Egging, RED 4 did not survive. Heart felt condolences to his family and friends as well as all fans of the Red Arrows world wide. :cry:
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Post by Blaze » Sun Aug 21, 2011 4:55 pm

Godspeed Flt Lt Jon Egging. This has been a really rough season. :cry:
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Post by Cobra » Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:23 pm

Video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOrVd23riOw

Eerily similar to Kevin Davis's crash in 07. GLOC or birdstrike is my on the spot-totally uninformed-snap opinion.

First Reds fatality since 1978. :(
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