Vintage jet flying displays ‘restricted’ following Shoreham air tragedy

The disaster prompted the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to announce restrictions on air shows “until further notice” on the flying of vintage jets.

The Royal Air Forces Association, which helps organise the show, said on Monday that the team running the event had many years’ experience nationally and needed to meet tough safety standards set by Britain’s air transport regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

The final death toll from a jet crash at a British airshow could rise to 20, police say as an operation began to recover the plane wreckage.

The accident happened at 1.20pm on Saturday when a 1950s Hawker Hunter fighter jet plummeted on to the A27 after failing to pull out of a loop-the-loop stunt.

It said the ban on the Hawker Hunter remained in place and other aircraft would be limited to flypasts.

On Monday, a crane was brought in to lift the wreckage of the plane off the carriageway and it has now been taken to Farnborough for examination, while police have been removing burntout vehicles from the scene.

TRIBUTES will be paid at Clacton Airshow to those who lost their lives in the tragic plane crash at Shoreham, which left 11 people dead.

Authorities resumed the search for more possible victims two days after the military jet plunged from the sky and crashed onto the busy highway.

Erol Huseyin, who filmed the take-off at the Hawker Hunter’s home base at North-Weald, said they thought at the time that it looked “laboured” and “slow”.

Personal trainer Matt Jones, 24, also died along with Mr Abrahams.

“We send our heartfelt condolences to all of those affected by the awful incident on Saturday”, they said.

One of the region’s biggest airshows has today altered its line-up for reasons of public safety in the wake of the Shoreham air crash tragedy.

Witnesses said there was stunned silence after the massive fireball spewed smoke into the air.

The CAA will continue to offer every assistance to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch as it seeks to establish the cause of the accident.

Tendring District Council, which runs the show, said it had been in contact with flight consultants and the majority of aircraft flying at the show would be over the sea.

Chris Heames was listed as the pilot in the air show’s programme.

Two amateur soccer players on their way to match on a summer afternoon were among those known to have died in the southeastern England crash.

He had been on his way to pick up a bride-to-be to take her to her wedding when the jet crashed into the road.