Red Arrows Crash.

[RuSZ]

A few days old, and it is very sad

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8713429/Red-Arrows-pilot-killed-in-crash.html

Flt Lt Jon Egging, 33, is believed to have tried to eject only after guiding the RAF jet towards a field as it apparently suffered a failure following an aerobatic display.
But he was killed when the jet plunged into a field near the river Stour, just outside Bournemouth.
Flt Lt Egging, who lived in Rutland, Lincs, with his wife Emma, was the first Red Arrows pilot to die in a crash for 33 years.
Flying under the call sign RED 4 he had suddenly peeled away from the other eight Red Arrows as they headed back to Bournemouth international airport after performing at the town's air festival.
The jet flew low over houses and other buildings before crashing into a field near the village of Throop, Dorset, bouncing several times and splitting into two mangled pieces.

In my opinion, this man is a hero..

He could have ejected at the first sign of trouble, and let his plane crash somewhere,
But no... He stayed at the controls and steered his jet away from a extremely populated area saving many lives in the process...


RIP Flt Lt Egging

 

[Eklipze3k]

Gimme an R

https://www.fiatforum.com/leisure-lounge/280089-red-4-a.html

Agree though, sad times indeed.

 

[RuSZ]

E?

Title threw me...

didnt read any threads, just looked through the Titles on LL..