Originally Posted by brutt22
It seems to me that at a high percentage of air shows either a plane goes down or someone is killed or both. I see it on the news all the time. Why do they continue to have them?
Those who know me will know that I am generally calm and polite. But the one thing that makes my blood boil are unqualified comments like this one from someone who clearly hasn't looked at any statistics whatsoever.
I will admit that I haven't looked at statistics either.
But what I can tell you is this:
I am involved with airshows at an airfield in the UK.
We have four shows a year.
In the six years of my involvement (that's 24 shows) we have had ONE serious accident. The other 23 shows were accident-free.
One hears about accidents in the news. One doesn't hear about airshows that are accident-free. Here in the UK we have have several airshows every single week-end throughout the airshow season (May to October). You must have many many more in the United States. How many airshow accidents do you hear about in an average year?