News Should Air Shows be Banned ? - UK

[shyvas]

http://news.sky.com/story/1540576/shoreham-victims-mother-calls-for-air-show-ban

This is the 3 rd plane crash during air shows within the last year. Two planes also crashed in an air show in Switzerland yesterday.

A mother of one of the Shoreham victims is calling for a ban of air shows in populated areas. She is requesting that they should be held over the sea.

I also think that they should never take place where there is a highly dense population.
Shoreham's crash killed at least 11 people and there may be more bodies that will be recovered when the plane is lifted during the course of the day.

 

[Amy SF]

It seems to happen a lot here in the U.S. as well. I don't know why they crash. Are the pilots simply careless, or are there defects with the planes themselves? Even when the air shows take place in areas with few people around, the pilots can still be killed or injured, not to mention some of the people who came to watch the air show. I don't like the idea of a blanket ban on air shows, but it seems like there's an accident at EVERY single one.

 

[shyvas]

Apparently it is often due to pilot error. I think that they should only have air shows over the sea. I can't quite comprehend that the plane in question was doing loopholes above a busy trunk road.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I also think that they should never take place where there is a highly dense population.
Shoreham's crash killed at least 11 people and there may be more bodies that will be recovered when the plane is lifted during the course of the day.

It's really awful that it killed so many people, the footage was very shocking to watch.

 

[shyvas]

It's really awful that it killed so many people, the footage was very shocking to watch.

Sussex police believe that there are more bodies underneath the wreckage. It looks like there are 20 fatalities.

Apparently all vintage planes taking part in air shows are suspended until further notice. Good.

 

[Mischief]

Well, it's always pilot error, unless there is some mechanical breakdown that the pilot couldn't foresee.

The whole point to these airshows is that people want to see aerobatics that excite them. That means pilots going to the edge with their skills and pushing the aircraft to the edge of their mechanical capabilities, whether it's vintage aircraft or fighter jets flying in extremely close formation at high speeds.

People get excited by the potential of catastrophe. That's what air shows and a number of other types of "entertainment" are all about.