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Ukraine Airshow
Posted: 2002-07-27 02:23pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Anyone find this crash to be down to crowd control more than pilot error (as far as casualties are concerned)?
http://kier.3dfrontier.com/forums/showt ... adid=32862
Posted: 2002-07-27 11:27pm
by Wicked Pilot
Here's the story for those who are interested
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jht ... ID=1259416
What happen is absolutely horrible. I never once thought there would ever be a crash worse than the Ramstein one.
Posted: 2002-07-28 04:58am
by Cool Cat
Very terrible.
It's the worst airshow disaster ever. Even more dead than at the Ramstein disaster some 15 years ago...
Someone else said this to me......
Posted: 2002-07-28 11:01am
by MKSheppard
It was so nice of those pilots to die in the process of guiding their
crippled aircraft away from spectators..........
Posted: 2002-07-28 11:17am
by NecronLord
You may not have noticed but they ejected when the plane was about two seconds from impact, you critisise them unfairly, what would that hav achived other than inceasing the death toll by two?
Posted: 2002-07-28 11:58am
by Admiral Valdemar
NecronLord wrote:You may not have noticed but they ejected when the plane was about two seconds from impact, you critisise them unfairly, what would that hav achived other than inceasing the death toll by two?
It was sarcasm.
Fact is that the ejector seats are there for a reason. Would it be honourable to look like you guided the plane into those people? No.
Saving your life takes just as much precedent.