A sad day.

Papers full of the dreadful plane crash at the Shoreham Air Show when a historic jet fighter doing a loop-the-loop came down on a busy road killing at least seven people. Just awful, but also a little puzzling I feel.  I've been to the Cosford Air Show a few times, and it always seemed obvious to me that the "stunts" performed had been arranged so that if - God forbid - anything should go wrong, the plane would come down in open ground away from any houses.  Here, it seems to me, the loop-the-loop manoeuvre was always designed to end with the plane pulling out dangerously close to the road with houses on both sides and no room for error. There will doubtless be an inquiry and I will be interested to see if this aspect is explained.