On Feb 12, 6:49 pm, "user" wrote:
Far from disagreeing with the report and its recommendations... the point is
simply to put this accident in context. There were no innocents harmed, as
some contributors to this and related threads have suggested. There was,
however, foolishness on the ground and in the air.

It was very poor judgment on the part of pilots to continue the practice of
flying the last part of their final glides in ground effect with people in
the way. It was also very poor judgment on the part of spectators to place
themselves in harm's way by deliberately standing in the path of low flying
aircraft.

Jeez, the guy was standing on a road 350m outside the airfield
boundary!! It happened to be a photographer who was hit but it could
have been anyone, e.g. the farmer walking through is his field while
our dumbass pilot was busy flying at zero feet so he could look *up*
at the telegraph wires...


Dan