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Video: The 1952 Farnborough Air Show tragedy

We marked the anniversary of the 1952 Farnborough Air Show tragedy last September, but a YouTube user has just uploaded a short segment from a BBC documentary, Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies (which can also be viewed on YouTube in its entirety), about the accident which killed 29 spectators plus the two people onboard the aircraft. After the injured were evacuated and the dead bodies and debris were removed, the air show went on:

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Matthew Stibbe is CEO of Articulate Marketing and Turbine, the easy, online way to deal with office paperwork. He has an FAA CPL/IR and an EASA PPL/IR and sometimes flies a Cirrus SR-22. He also writes about wine at Vincarta and being a better manager at Geek Boss.
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