That sucked!

If you watch that sequence in slow motion right when they hit you can clearly see the body of one of the pilots being slung out of the cockpit and tumbling through the air.You can see it on this video as well if you look very carefully.

One of the videos on You tube shows it very clearly.

The only good thing I can say about this is that they never knew it was coming and they were dead in a milisecond . It was over quickly for these guys. May they RIP.

By Surestrike:

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and they were dead in a milisecond . It was over quickly for these guys. May they RIP.

Do you think that is the reason he did not pull a parachute or would he be too low for that even if he had survived?

Do any of the other videos show what happened to the other airplane? I presume it went down hard also.

Very sad. I wonder what they were trying to do - maybe the plane coming from the right was going between the other two? I do not recall seeing this maneuver in an airshow.

Palmer,

The guy you can see being slung through the air is dead. His body is totally limp. Think of the kinetic force that body suffered to get center punched by another airplane and completely forcibly ejected from his airplane though the side of his cockpit.

He would have had plenty of time to pull if he'd been alive or concious.

If you watch the you tube sequence you can clearly see that he isn't with us anymore he is just a bag of bones at that point.

Watch this one you'll se what I am talking about.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=quJmJwyFyPk&mode=related&search=

Surestrike, I see what you mean now.

I still do not understand what they were trying to do but it shows that a split second of timing can result in either a disaster or another hanger story.

I noticed watching this thing again that the guy who is heading towards the camera makes a last minute nose up pitch adjustment. It looks like he was probably supposed to go under the guy from the left of the screen but that guy was out of position.

The aircraft that center punched him was probably in position and at the top of the merge.

That was one seriously tragic 15 foot altitude adjustment.

The maneuver looked like a three way opposing loop?

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Originally posted by surestrike:
I noticed watching this thing again that the guy who is heading towards the camera makes a last minute nose up pitch adjustment. It looks like he was probably supposed to go under the guy from the left of the screen but that guy was out of position.

The aircraft that center punched him was probably in position and at the top of the merge.

That was one seriously tragic 15 foot altitude adjustment.

The maneuver looked like a three way opposing loop?

I saw that too...I was thinking the same thing.
Sad miscalculation.