Rough day for aviation - Red Arrows and more

[Spin]

Certainly feels as though we're having a rash of accidents of late :

 

This morning's news mentioned three more, thankfully not local but no less tragic for that;

 

No. 4 aircraft from the current Red Arrows team broke off from a display at Bournemouth UK and crashed into an open area, the pilot apparently having ridden it down and guided it away from a nearby village and theme park. Not clear if he ejected too late or was thrown from wreck, but found on banks of river with fatal injuries;

 

Chartered 737 crashed in Arctic area of Canada, killing all 15 on board;

 

Aerobatic aircraft crashed during a display in Kansas US, pilot did not survive.

 

 

[dutchroll]

The Kansas City one was Bryan Jensen in his Pitts Model 12 "The Beast". Graphic footage is on youtube. It looks like a classic Pitts "crossover spin" to me (starts inverted then flips to upright just before impact). Not enough height to recover, unfortunately. Very tragic.

 

 

[Neil_S]

Appalling news - all of them...

 

Sympathies to the families & friends of all involved.....

 

 

[Suitman]

Very sad news.

 

 

[dunlopdangler]

Also a guy doing a wingwalk lost his footing and was also killed same weekend in the US..all a terrible loss .