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The Guardian - UK
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EXPLAINED: Shoreham airshow victims were unlawfully killed coroner rules | Vintage Vibes

Emergency services attending the scene on 22 August 2015 on the A27 as after a plane crashed into cars during an aerial display at the Shoreham airshow in West Sussex.
Emergency services attending the scene on 22 August 2015 on the A27 as after a plane crashed into cars during an aerial display at the Shoreham airshow in West Sussex. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA

Eleven men who died after a Hawker Hunter aircraft crashed on to a dual carriageway during an aerial display at the 2015 Shoreham airshow in West Sussex were unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled.

At the conclusion of an inquest seven years after the incident, in which 13 other people were injured, senior coroner Penelope Schofield said that 11 lives had been “cruelly lost” and that it was clear that the aircraft’s pilot should have abandoned a manoeuvre he was undertaking.

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