How did the 10 deadliest air show disasters in history happen? How many were the result of pilot mistakes and how many were due to other reasons? We’ll look at a few crashes you might not have ever heard of as well as some of the most famous air show crashes in history.
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For the life of me I don’t understand the attraction of air shows. I remember seeing The Blue Angels at age 10 and being wowed, but I’ve never had a subsequent urge to attend another show. I know hundreds of these occur annually without incident. I also know a handful produce a loss of life, mostly for pilots, but occasionally for attendees and other people just mowing their lawn when a hot exhaust part lands on them. I don’t get it.
Love your analysis Hoover, and I hate to be a pedant, but you of all people should know that dogfight-like flight maneuvers are called "aerobatics" . "acrobatics" is something done by gymnasts and tumblers. I know its a minor quibble, but this particular mistake really chaps my arse.
Um. Kind of messed up that a spying plane caused the TU144 to break up. I dont understand why they felt the need to do that. I mean, the planes visible in public, in the west. Airshows are supposed to be about collaberation and celebration of planes.
06:30 Wait..The pilot survived that?
I love air shows, that God all of I have ever been to were safe.
Anyone else here have dreams of witnessing air show disasters? I know it sounds crazy, but I’ve had dreams for 30+ years. At 4:52 and 15:49 these photos are so visceral and incredibly catastrophic. Makes me think I was a test pilot or something in a previous life. I wish I knew why I am subconsciously drawn to this matter. Am I alone in this? 🙏🏼
With regards to the F-86 crash, I didn't see in the report where the pilot actually said he was using the airspeed indicator for a rotation point (as he should have been doing). It is that he rotated too much 15° The pilot handbook says you should only rotate 5°. For sure the inexperience, or lack of knowledge of the pilot handbook, domed this flight from the beginning.
In addition this pilot never received any training in a military jet like the T-33, so the FAA should have never granted him approval to fly that aircraft due to the lack of required traning. 😬
Thank you for the video, always look forward to your new uploads. Such tragic events.
IIRC the Shoreham air disaster crashed into traffic which was backed up due to traffic congestion. The fact the pilot was cleared was pretty controversial.
I haven't watched the video yet, just wondering before we start what number I think the one where the guy crashes into the ice cream shop and wipes out a bunch of kids and families, will be ranked, cuz it's on here…or this is no list at all, roll video!
And it's the very first one, lol, who could've guessed it!
Almost ALL are avoidable. I heard that the main problem with these ex USAF pilots is that America has never won a war, even though they always attack much much smaller nations, and so the American pilots ego's still need to be inflated by constantly frequenting these air shows.
It's then these weak American military ego's that inevitably result in pilot error and recklessly endanger innocent spectators lives, often mostly children !
Pilots needs to be in good shape I remember the Blue Angels crash 2016 which was caused by fatigue by the pilot after training all day
Bob hoover? A relative?
-hey, can you fly this plane?
-yeah probably.
You shouldn't say "the ukraine". It's just Ukraine. "the Ukraine" is the russian/soviet term and it's considered demeaning.
I was at the Shoreham 2015 airshow in person with one of my closest friends who invited me to go with him i can't believe it's already been 8 years from the crash.
Around a week later I went to my local Clacton airshow and there was a moment of silence for those lost then followed by a round of applause from the spectators it brought a few tears to my eyes.😢
And the fact that Andy hill was found not guilty makes me sick to the stomach. 😠
ANDY HILL SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEALT WITH MUCH HARSHER ,, what wasn't taken into account of enough was that he almost did the same at the southport airshow in a jet provost and was kicked off the show , a few feet lower and i was stood where he would have impacted , he would have took out a beer van and 2 burger vans and all the people around them ,, there were red flags with him that were ignored
So would the Nimrod incident be a case of
"Dangerous, Dumb, Different"?
wow! you certainly put me off going to airshows
I still remember the first time I watched the footage of the Ukraine crash. I watched it here on YouTube years ago. It has since been taken down. It was put up again a few years later, and then taken down again. I'm figuring its still down. At least I hope it is. It's one of those videos you wish you could unsee. Because the horrific aftermath burns into your soul, and you can't forget what you had just seen. The footage is taken by 2 or 3 amateur camera men. Likely spectators with camcorders, who ran up to the wreckage. As they run up to the crash site, you begin to see debris from the crash all over the place. Lumps of unidentified pieces of plane. That is until you realize that many of those are not pieces of the plane at all, but they're pieces of people. A torso with no head or legs. A leg or arm here and there. Some you can't really tell what body parts your looking at other than you recognizing a hand or shoe in the mess. It was horrific. I'm an ex firefighter and medic, who worked for a large city for many years. I've seen ghastly injuries and unthinkable horrors. And I got used to seeing things like that. But I've never witnessed carnage on that scale before. And its something that you don't ever get used to.
Like for you to talk about the 1994 B52 crash at Fairchild AFB. While it did not happen during a airshow it was preparation for a airshow the day before.
The few incidents where the pilots survived, neither of which mention anything about when and where the pilots ejected and I don’t see an ejection in either videos. So I was frustrated that was left out of 2 incidents
Don’t forget the air show crash involving the brand new A320 that was just delivered to Air France
I used to live a few miles from Shoreham and was on my way to see the afternoon part of the show when the crash happened.
These are the reasons I do NOT attend air shows. I value my life more than that! Cheers from eastern TN
N1400 Centurion, La Jolla, CA
Caused by poor Fuel Mgmt.
The Galloping Coast right hand trim tab was fixed in place for what ever reason I have not seen.
Life advice: If you see a pilot making a face as seen in 16:05, don't fly with him.
Galloping ghost technically was pilot error.
He implemented design changes that failed.
Its crazy how similar the Russian concorde and the France concorde are 🤔
Tupolev, not Tupelov
arnborough accident from 1952 brings back on my mind to several old Pathé movies of what used to be SBAC (Society of British Aircraft Constructors) in late '40s and early '50s. It seems that there was an immense pressure on those Test Pilots performing in front of potential purchasers of their novelties placed on the VIP's balcony.
New jet aircraft flew right over spectators at incredibly low altitudes performing highly demanding manouvers, on cutting edges of their flight envelopments.
I remember seeing a prototype of the Canberra making a very tight turn far lower than a hundred feet right over the camera and the observers and no-one said anything.
In other videos I saw a prototype of the Handley Page Victor landing meters away from reporters with their cameras and children playing, without any visible security guard or protection.
The accident you mention was of the DeHavilland DH 110; a novel aircraft competing with Glosters for a RAF requeriment for a Night/All-Weather fighter, competition later won by the Gloster GA.5, lately known as The Javelin. The DH.110 later gave birth to the embarked naval fighter named the Sea Vixen.
The accident ocurred when the second prototypem an elegantly black painted bird, experienced engine failures in early morning, forcing John Derry and Tony Richards, De Havviland's crew, to fly back to Hatfield, North of London, on the company's Dragon Rapide, to bring the only other existing DH.110, the all-silver first prototype.
That plane wasn't scheduled to fly that day and De Havilland administration had to improvise.
During part of earlier flights they were testing the application of a large wing fence right on mid span in both wings to avoid early airflow separation from wing upper surface.
Those fences were retired lately to continue testing without them. In those later flights it wasn't thought to make hard-G manouvers. Sadly those fences (also applied to the second black prototype), conferred strenght to wing integrity as last days flights demonstrated.
No-one thought in that detail. So, when John Derry pulled a very tight turn to make a second low fast subsonic pass over Farnborough after the first supersonic one, the hich-G load on the wings were too much and both outer wings broke more or less at the same moment desintegrating the plane in the air. The cockpits with Derry and Richards made a dive right in front of people and crashed just meters away from the rope that held people from flight operations terrain. Except for both pilots who died there, no-one was injured by the cockpits and nose fall.
The rear fuselage, containing the inner segments of the wings, both tail booms and both vertical fins plus the stabilizator and the rear part of the fuselage fell performing a slow plain spin over a solitary portion of the field But sadly both Avon engines detached from the rear fuselage and were released like a pair of bombs that made a parabollic fall towards a small hill where large numbers of nosy people gathered to see the airshow from right outsider the airfield. One of the engines with its blades still running anf fiery hot, fell on the crowd killing twenty-nine people and injuring about sixty. Most of the people were not executives from aircraft companies or representatives of foreign governments. That hill was chosen by families to see the show and that was the tragic end of the DH.110 show.
However (which is unthinkable today), Hawkers test pilot who had to fly after DeHavilland, to show the second Hawker P.1067, prototype of the Hawker Hunter, had to postpone his flight… just about an hour, to let ambulances and emergency teams to do their job. After that, show had to go on and he was cleared to take off and continue the Airshow. It is unbelievable today. Things have changed a lot and, I believe, for the better.
Moral of the story, don't get ice cream in the vicinity of an airshow! Ice cream parlor and ice cream truck… 😬
Very cool.
My old roommate was on the Nimrod. I am pretty sure that the newspaper picture you have included in the video is actually the crew of the Nimrod that went down in Afghanistan. There was a similar shot the day after the Canadian crash.
Blue skies Bernie.
great analysis
While I was stationed there in the service we ate in the ice cream place dozens of times. Close call.
The 2015 Shoreham crash is the reason we have the "runway" for the Ayr Airshow/Scottish International Airshow over the water. I was on one of the safety boats for that – chasing off Jetskiers and the like who keep entering the "runway".
Why is it no one talking about the Hawker crash ever nots that he started the maneuver with the flaps down?
What is it with Ice Cream?!
👉🏻 STAY AWAY FROM ICE ☠️ CREAM 👈🏻
I was at the Shoreham Air crash in England. It was terrible . I unfortunately had with me my daughter and nephew… they see way to much that day . Andy Hill I believe was only trying to do what we all wanted to see . These air shows are great but once in a while there will be accidents unfortunately. Loved the Shoreham air show . Sadly missed
The public had a lucky escape at RIAT 93 when the 2 Migs collided, wreckage landed away from the crowd line.
I was at the Ostend airshow on the opposite side of the runway , it was caused by an extremely poor pilot skill , the aircraft plummeted without making sound and no crash noise was heard , like in a silent movie.
By far my favorite aviation channel. Very nice job.
How, despite the facts, Andy Hill escaped responsibility for this horrendous incident still mystifies and amazes the people of Sussex to this day..