{"id":59675,"date":"2015-08-23T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T03:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=59675"},"modified":"2025-01-12T05:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T10:52:44","slug":"police-say-7-dead-after-jet-in-uk-airshow-crashes-into-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/23\/police-say-7-dead-after-jet-in-uk-airshow-crashes-into-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Police say 7 dead after jet in UK airshow crashes into road"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59678\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/shutterstock_307638278.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59678\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/shutterstock_307638278.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/shutterstock_307638278.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/shutterstock_307638278-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 A military jet taking part in a British airshow crashed into a busy main road Saturday, killing seven people and injuring more than a dozen others, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawker Hunter fighter jet, which was participating in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton in southern England, hit several vehicles on a nearby road as it crashed Saturday afternoon. Witnesses told local TV that the jet appeared to have crashed when it failed to pull out of a loop maneuver.<\/p>\n<p>West Sussex Police said seven people died at the scene and one patient with life-threatening injuries was taken to the hospital. Another 14 people were treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>News video and photographs showed a fireball erupting near trees and huge plumes of thick black smoke rising. A witness, Stephen Jones, told the BBC that the pilot had just begun his display.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy pepcid online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indcheminternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/pepcid.html\">https:\/\/www.indcheminternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/pepcid.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;d gone up into a loop and as he was coming out of the loop I just thought, you&#8217;re too low, you&#8217;re too low, pull up. And he flew straight into the ground either on or very close to the A27, which runs past the airport,&#8221; Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>The force said all the deaths were believed to have occurred on the road, and no one on the airfield was believed injured.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy prelone online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indcheminternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/prelone.html\">https:\/\/www.indcheminternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/prelone.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> It was not known whether the pilot was able to eject.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed in both directions Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Crashes at British airshows are rare, but in 2007 the pilot of a World War II Hurricane died at the Shoreham Airshow after performing an unplanned barrel-roll.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy strattera online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indcheminternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/strattera.html\">https:\/\/www.indcheminternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/strattera.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We mustn&#8217;t rush to knee jerk reactions about the safety of airshows,&#8221; said Tim Loughton, a member of Britain&#8217;s parliament who represents Shoreham. &#8220;This is an airshow that&#8217;s been going for 26 years, only the second time there&#8217;s been any serious accident, and the first time that spectators and people on the ground have been affected, bad though that is.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 A military jet taking part in a British airshow crashed into a busy main road Saturday, killing seven &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":59678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-sylvia-hui","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282755,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59675\/revisions\/282755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}