I was at the show and saw it all happen. It is always very distressing when innocent members of the public are killed and injured at an event that is supposed to be a pleasure for everyone.
The media have behaved in their usual dumb way in this instance by publishing interviews with so called aviation experts as to what might have happened, when the AAIB who are the real experts have said it could take months of investigation to explain the accident and even then we might never know exactly what happened. There has also been the usual over reaction to incidents of this nature although I think the CAA has reacted sensibly in this case by temporarily grounding all Hunters and prohibiting aerobatics, unless over the sea, by vintage jets. I just hope that some grandstanding politician doesn't become involved in a campaign to get air shows banned or severely restricted.
Coincidently, when I was a child I was at the Farnborough Airshow in the early 1950s with my father when the DH110 flown by John Derry disintegrated in the air and the engines went into the crowd killing a number of people. I still remember the event but wasn't aware at the time that anyone had been killed as the fatalities were several hundred yards away from our position. I understand that this was the last time that anyone on the ground has been killed by a crashing aircraft at an airshow in the UK until Saturday's accident, which is not a bad record. Many more people have been killed at football matches over the years and no one has suggested that football should be banned.
RIP to all those killed at Shoreham on Saturday and condolences to their families.
Chris