The aircraft involved in the accident, photographed in 2013
Accident
Date
22 August 2015 (2015-08-22)
Summary
Pilot error
Site
A27 road, Shoreham Airport boundary, West Sussex, UK 50°50′30″N0°17′43″W / 50.8417°N 0.2952°W / 50.8417; -0.2952
Total fatalities
11
Total injuries
16
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Hawker Hunter T7
Operator
Canfield Hunter Limited
Registration
G-BXFI
Flight origin
North Weald Airfield, Essex, United Kingdom
Destination
North Weald Airfield
Occupants
1
Crew
1
Fatalities
0
Injuries
1
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities
11
Ground injuries
15
On 22 August 2015, a former military aircraft crashed onto a main road during an aerial display at the Shoreham Airshow at Shoreham Airport, England, killing 11 people and injuring 16 others. It was the deadliest air show accident in the United Kingdom since the 1952 Farnborough Airshow crash, which had killed 31 people.[1]
The aircraft, a Hawker Hunter T7, failed to complete a loop manoeuvre and crashed, hitting vehicles on the A27 road adjacent to the airport. The pilot, Andy Hill, was critically injured but survived.[2][3] As a result of the accident, all civilian-registered Hawker Hunter aircraft in the United Kingdom were grounded, and restrictions were put in place on civilian vintage jet aircraft displays over land, limiting them to high-level flypasts and banning aerobatic manoeuvres.
The official investigation by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch concluded that the crash resulted from pilot error. In 2018, Hill was charged with eleven counts of manslaughter by gross negligence and one count of endangering an aircraft. He was found not guilty on all counts on 8 March 2019. The organisers of the Shoreham Airshow denied any responsibility for the crash.[4]
An inquest into the deaths of the victims was scheduled to be held in 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until 30 November 2022, pending the outcome of some procedural issues.
In December 2022, the coroner found that the victims were unlawfully killed as their deaths were caused by an incorrect manoeuvre and a series of gross errors.[5]
After the crash, regulations for airshows were significantly tightened by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), increasing costs to organisers to fund the new safety measures to a degree that led to the cancellation of later shows.[6]
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