Info on this accident, please...

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 at 16:13:56 in message
8JBof.651020$xm3.363465@attbi_s21, John Ousterhout
wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1367462.stm
14 July 1996: Decorated former RAF squadron leader and Britannia
Airways pilot Michael "Hoof" Proudfoot dies as his Lockheed P38
Lightning cartwheels and bursts into flames.

The 54-year-old had been on a low-level flypast in the vintage US World
War Two plane in front of 13,000 people at the Imperial War Museum in
Duxford, Cambridgeshire.

I believe that is the one. I recall reading about the accident
investigation. The pilot normally did a low level roll, but always with
an upward flight path. In this case for an unknown reason a second
started. The most likely theory I believe is that a loose piece of
equipment fell into the bottom of the cockpit - possibly a knee-board,
possibly jamming the aileron control.

--
David CL Francis