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Someone mentioned the incident where a Swedish JA-37 Viggen did a similar thing in 2002 in Sweden, I did a google translate of two articles about this incident and fixed the most obvious weird translation issues (but not all ):

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/sex...-av-viggenplan

Six burn victims caused by Viggen fighter plane
Published 2002-06-20 13:00

The fighter pilots and their girlfriends where standing near the runway to see close up how two Viggen fighters took off. Just after takeoff one turned directly at the spectators and six people were injured by the jet beam.

- One of our pilots are among the injured. Another is an Italian fighter pilot on a visit to Sweden, says Major Christer Ulriksson, press officer of the flight squadron F16 in Uppsala where the accident occurred.

It was just after 09 on Thursday morning when the two Viggen fighters would embark on an exercise.

On a small hill about 75 meters left of the runway farthest part were the six people who are now being treated for burns at the University Hospital in Uppsala. Another person was nearby, but escaped injury.

According to Christer Ulriksson the first of the Viggens changed course just after the wheels left the runway.

- The pilot turned against the persons and flew over them at very low altitude, says Ulriksson and says that the distance to the ground "was probably closer to ten meters than twenty."

The group had no chance to escape the heat from the afterburner of the fighter jet. Burning jet fuel is also believed to have hit the injured. Ulrik's theory is that the pilot wanted to impress the spectators. Reportedly, he knew many of them.

- Probably, he wanted to make a cool thing. But to deviate from the course in this manner is not allowed, even if he theoretically could have been forced to give way to a bird.

Nothing to indicate a failure has emerged. The Uppsala police and the court of inquiry is now investigating the cause of the accident.
Christer Ulriksson say they were injured in an "unofficial visit".

- Our pilot had brought his girlfriend, the Italian and his Swedish girlfriend and some other acquaintances to follow the take off.

For three of the six injured, who is reported to be between 20 and 30 years old, the condition is described as serious. These, two women and one man was treated on Thursday in a ventilator. The wounds are however not considered life threatening.

The other three reportedly received minor injuries. One of them had left the hospital on Thursday evening.

The pilot who caused the accident is fully trained and deemed to have a lot of experience. The man was heard yesterday by the police without being served a suspicion of crime. What he said is not known.

- We do not go out with anything on this at present, said police spokesman Christer Nordström.

And the two years later a follow up article:

http://www.nyheterna.se/1.22671

Viggen pilot accused of accident

The pilot who two years ago flew a Viggen aircraft that seriously injured several people on the ground, has been charged with grievous bodily harm, according to local newspaper online edition.

Published August 3, 2004 16:46
On 20 June 2002 the former pilot flew a Viggen aircraft so close to the ground that a group of visitors at the then-F16 Wing in Uppsala where injured.

The jet beam struck a group of nine people. Three of them received serious burns. Two people also suffered lung damage, bleeding in the brain and damage to the eye or ear drum of the blast.

The former pilot risks a prison sentence of up to four years.

EDIT (to sum this up). Found a last article about this from 2005:

http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/vss/teleg..._852__,00.html

Viggen pilot was fined
The Viggen pilot who nearly three years ago burned a total of eight people in connection with a take off at F 16 was sentenced to probation and 100 day fines of 390 Swedish kronor.

The pilot was convicted of causing bodily harm. The district court held that the crime was aggravated because the pilot deliberately took a serious risk when he flew low over a group of visitors to the F 16th
Aftonbladet Teletext
Published: 2005-05-20

So he got about $6000 in fines and lost a rather nice job, and shall we guess the girlfriend too? Incredibly stupid to pass people on the ground at full afterburner and top it off by doing a pull up just as he passed over them for maximum effect (another article talks about him being at about 5 meters).

In some kind of defence of him it was obviously extremely hot that day so with the thin air caused by that and a heavy fighter right after take off he maybe tried pulling up before he passed them, but ended up pulling high alpha and pointing that enormous torch into the ground while passing them a almost zero altitude...