Ukraine Airshow

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2002-07-27 02:23pm

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

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2002-07-27 11:27pm

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.

Cool Cat · Post by **Cool Cat** » 2002-07-28 04:58am

Very terrible.

It's the worst airshow disaster ever. Even more dead than at the Ramstein disaster some 15 years ago...

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2002-07-28 11:01am

It was so nice of those pilots to die in the process of guiding their
crippled aircraft away from spectators..........

Post by **NecronLord** » 2002-07-28 11:17am

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?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2002-07-28 11:58am

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.

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Ukraine Airshow

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