With both Beermat and Moggy on this one. Good piece on the media but do have to consider that some involved people might find it offensive so Beermat you have done the gentlemanly thing sir.

Rather than a D notice how about every time anything air related happens just temporarily shut down this forum until the CAA has published its report.

One could ask why are you reading it then?
As, of course, you fully realise it is the press that are the problem as on the whole this forum is well regulated

It is at times like this that I feel the old D Notice system should be re-introduced, but in these cases embargoing ALL personal opinions on air, road or rail accidents!! It must be appalling for relatives of the dead and injured to be subjected to sensationist journalism at every turn…….but I realise that it will never happen!:(

I was thinking along similar lines but had not thought of D notices. Why not just use sub-judice where by the Coroner opens and adjourns the case and the case is not allowed to be discussed in public. This would surely protect the grieving from the media and the pilot from incorrect allegations which never go away.

I don’t think anybody could possibly dispute that but the point being made is that nobody at this stage knows if there was any other contributing factor and that comments, however expert, that directly blames any individual are best made in in private to the appropriate authority and for that authority consider all the available evidence to come to the best possible conclusion and then make that public.

“None of us is perfect”

sorry couldn’t resist.

Does not “None” specifically refer to Captain Brown? So not sure what you couldn’t resist.

Well one can hardly say that this expert is unqualified technical anyway. Whether this is the best thing to be saying at this stage is highly questionable and somewhat surprising to me anyway.

Exactly but we are avoiding discussing this directly for good reason, this is certainly my belief but await the official report.

I think it would be reasonable to say that broadly speaking forumites are in general agreement that airshow safety record is excellent as is the maintenance of these aircraft and that the skill of display pilots is probably the best in the world. That the actions that have been taken are reasonable under the circumstances and in relation to the specific cause we should await official reports. Many would say this is understandable because of the nature of the forum and they would be right.

What I find strange is that there have been many thousands of hits on this thread presumably most by “guests” in view of the comparison of numbers viewing at any given time, 17/75 right now, that not one single person has joined to make their views known and more specifically to make comments like we have seen in various media sites. I wonder why this is?

Both pprune and this forum come up in a search all be it on page 3 or 4.