Red Arrow crashes during Bournemouth Air Festival

[Propwash]

ARTICLE (BBC News)

Fatalities: 1

[Slijfie]

Very sad.

Nu.nl is doing an uneducated guess:

Sad too.

[ROB MkIX]

ARTICLE (BBC News)

Fatalities: 1

Sorry but there has been no conformation of the condition of the pilot so lets keep our fingers croosed for a good outcome.

Rob

[PH-BRAD]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14 ... um=twitter

Short film where you can see (or can't see) the plane.

[pjotrtje]

Locals reported that the pilot has not survived the accident. Let's hope it's not true. If it is: may he or she rest in peace.

[jeroenvn]

Very sad R.I.P.

[frank kramer]

Very sad news indeed. My condolences to everyone affected..

More on:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... splay.html

[frank kramer]

...and the official press release of the British Ministry of Defence that everybody feared confirms "Red 4" to be the victim :

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Defen ... Arrows.htm

[mailman]

Some sources say he died because he wanted to make sure his plane wouldn't crash in a populated area. Respect for the pilot: RIP Jon Egging...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-storie ... -23359662/

[ETURSPOTTER]

Latest news this morgning on BBC, they thought it could also be a G lock from de pilot cause the engine was stil running when it chrashd.
But also its still to early to be shure what causes the crash.

Most of all is sad for his family and other members off the team and air force.
Frits

[maurits]

very sad and tragic news.

According the official RAF-Red Arrows site, Red 4 is Hawk T1 XX308, and should be ´Eggmans´- aircraft.

XX308 Joined the Team in 1985 – Red 4 Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging & Circus 4 Corporal Scott Aston

Serial not confirmed yet.


Regards,

Maurits

[Spine24]

Latest news this morgning on BBC, they thought it could also be a G lock from de pilot cause the engine was stil running when it chrashd.

A G lock during a turn to final?????? I better not use smilies here.

RIP Jon Egging.

[aerobaticteams]

Here is a more complete story about Red Arrows crash:
http://aerobaticteams.net/news/red-arro ... -2011.html

[Stefan]

Here is a more complete story about Red Arrows crash:
http://aerobaticteams.net/news/red-arro ... -2011.html

copied the content of your link:

Red Arrows fatal crash update
Posted on Aug 21, 2011 by aerobaticteams.net (Updated 2:54 p.m. GMT)


Red Arrows Hawk T.1 plane crashed yesterday killing its pilot Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging. The crash occurred during break for land maneuver at the Bournemouth Air Festival in about 13:50 local time. Egging aged 33 from Rutland, joined the Royal Air Force Display Team in autumn of 2010 flying as Red 4 Slot position. He goes straight to the ground avoiding public locations, when his plane hit the ground and start bouncing several times before stops at the bank of nearby River Stour. Flt. Lt. Egging tried to land on the yard, but the ground was not enough hard to carry plane's landing. One of the gears broke and the airplane begins to bounce and start breaking apart until it fall into the river. Nose of the plane dived in the river as the tail up to the air. The pilot's body found few meter away with open parachute thrown from the cockpit as the ejection seat was at the cockpit. Flight Lieutenant Egging did not attempt to eject avoiding civil casualties. Jon Egging's wife was also in the crowd and watched Red Arrows display. This is the first fatal crash since Red Arrows flew BAE Hawk aircrafts.

The team now grounded as a safety measure until the investigation finds the cause of the crash. All following Red Arrows' displays are canceling for indefinite time.

There is no official release, what caused the crash, but the lack of fire at the crash spot indicated that the plane was out of fuel. First that we suggest a bird strike as a reason for the crash is less presumably (see Aug 7th accident below). This is just our point of view and is just speculation about the incident, until the investigation goes.

Two week back, on August 7th, another incident involved Red Arrows plane, when a bird hit one of the team's Hawks and forced the pilot to make emergency landing during Blackpool Air Show. No one was injured at this incident.

[aviodromefriend]

Here is a more complete story about Red Arrows crash:
http://aerobaticteams.net/news/red-arro ... -2011.html

As stated there:

This is just our point of view and is just speculation about the incident, until the investigation goes.

That story is containing a few statements that are easily to be qualified as completely wrong: First fatal incident since flying Hawks: See the incident during training last year (and I saw a longer list of Reds fatalities from about 7 at one of the UK newspaper sites yesterday). Second: Plane out of fuel-> Rescue workers have told in the British press that the engine was still running when they got to the scene. Then a no fire more points into the tanks having holded upon impact then no fuel.