Discussion for article #239682
Maybe the actual statistics for injuries/deaths at airshows aren’t that bad, but we just had a fatality in our Chicago Air & Water Show this month (two parachutists crashed into each other and one hit a building). Could it be time to reconsider these activities?
I don’t know about reconsidering the whole thing, but’s it certainly a great question as to why this air show was taking place directly over a busy highway.
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The airshow wasn’t taking place over the highway, that’s just where the jet went when the pilot screwed up his maneuver. And he did screw it up…he didn’t have the right amount of speed or altitude to do what he was trying to do. It’s such a common error to do the loop wrong and misjudge the pullout that you see that particular type of crash all the time…they really should stop allowing loops with low pullouts at airshows.
Oops… again?