Eleven people were unlawfully killed at the 2015 Shoreham Air Show because a pilot made a series of “gross errors”, a coroner has concluded.
Andrew Hill, who was driving the 1950s Hawker Hunter which crashed on the A27 in West Sussex, was not in court yesterday to hear the coroner say the risk to life involved in his stunt with noose, is “clear and obvious” .
The 57-year-old former Royal Air Force instructor was acquitted of manslaughter two years ago after jurors at the Old Bailey were told he had a temporary cognitive impairment.
Those killed in the crash included, top row, Matthew Grimstone, Matt Jones, Mark Reeves, Tony Brightwell and Mark Trussler, and bottom row, Dylan Archer, Richard Smith, Graham Mallinson, Maurice Abrahams and Daniele Polito
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Penelope Scofield, the senior coroner for West Sussex, said she did not need to be an expert to know the pilot was too slow in the fatal cycle and
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