Mr Hill will, in my opinion, be sent to jail for a long time for the manslaughter of 11 innocent people.
Mr Hill was involved in a previous display, in a JP i believe, 1 year earlier where his airmanship behaviour was immediatly question and his display was cut short by the show organisers. There would appear to be a rather cavalier attitude to safety of himself, the aircraft, and more importantly the safety of others.
The loop manœuvre did not have sufficient altitude (2800 ft) at the top - it should have been at least 3800 ft AGL - there was opportunity to abort the manoeuvre and roll out at the top of the loop, but Mr Hill decided to continue.
His defence, as I understand things, is that he 'blacked-out' under G, which I think is rubbish since he was pulling back on the stick as hard as he could.
The RAF display arena has a big machine behind it, with a proven engineering infrastructure, a big budget, modern equipment and young healthy pilots, and even they feck it up! So quite honestly, a 52 y/o ex Harrier pilot with limited recent currency, in an old fighter/bomber airframe of 40's/50's vintage technology, conducting this kind of manoeuvre, the likelihood of this accident increases exponentially.
The boy is going down and he deserves it
