Originally Posted by Aviatrix
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?
A few...solely because, as you pointed out, the US has many more airshows than the UK...while I wouldn't call it a "high percentage"...I would say it might be more common than you think...here are a couple...all of these have occured within the past couple of years, though I cant remember the exact dates
-F-117 crashes at Martin State Airport, Baltimore, Maryland
-Thunderbird F-16 crashes at Mountain Home AFB, Mountain Home, Idaho
-F-14 crashes at NAS/JRB Willow Grove, Pennsylvania
-Ian Groom and his Sukhoi crash at FLL Air/Sea Show
Im sure there are more, those are the ones that jump out at me...
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