Indian AF Display team crash

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st24
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Indian AF Display team crash

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Not the best start to the show season, 2 Hawks of the Surya Kiran have collided performing a mirror maneouve, one dead, 2 injured. Rehearsing for the Aero India show, due to start tomorrow...

https://m.timesofindia.com/india/two-ai ... ssion=true
You caaan't trust the system... Maaan!

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Ah nuts. One of these years we'll get an accident free season.

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Aircraft came down in a built up area, with some news sites suggesting a small number of Civilians suffered minor injuries.

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There is a video on Twitter of the incident, I won’t post it here as it’s horrific.

In short, their equivalent of the synchro pair were performing the mirror manoeuvre when they hit each other.... snapping one of the Hawks in half from the force of the impact!

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