PLANE TOO LOW AND TOO SLOW
Pilot blamed over Shoreham air disaster ALL THE NEWS,
PILOT Andy Hill was flying ® too low and too slow when
it.” Investigators found Mr Hill was his vintage fighter jet flying the plane 800ft lower than the crashed and killed 11 3,500ft minimum height considered people during a stunt. safe to perform a loop-the-loop. Investigators also discovered he And he was also only travelling at
105 knots rather than the 150 knots had not been properly trained in
required to complete the stunt. “escape manoeuvres” before taking Investigators also criticised off at the Shoreham Air safety management systems Show in West Sussex. which had been in place
And they say he may before the air show. have “confused” the A spokeswoman for Hawker Hunter with a seven of the victims’ similar lighter plane he families said it was “a had flown previously. disaster waiting to
Mr Hill, 52, was seriously happen”. injured when his The parents of victim plane crashed on to the Matthew Grimstone, 23, A27 but he survived the said aviation officials and tragedy in August 2015. show organisers “have
He is still being inves- PROBE: Pilot Andy Hill got much to answer for”. tigated by police over Det Chief Insp Paul Rymarz possible manslaughter charges. said: “This is a complex investigation
An official report released yesterday but we remain committed to said: “The aircraft crashed because finding answers for the families and at the top of its aerobatic friends of those who died.” manoeuvre it was too low to complete