crash at duxford today [2011]

[Mysticpuma]

Originally Posted by Houndstone Hawk

Sorry but I can't let this go. People like you bug the XXXXXXXX crap out of me. Only interestede in a 'creepy peepshow'.
Yes I videoed the whole event yesterday; yes I saw what happended, yes I immidietely then turned my camera off.

I realise had I had filmed the event then it would've been perhaps helpful to the air crash invistigation team at a later date & some good comes out of such footage but I'm glad my footage isn't used to entertain XXXXX like you.

Sadly you couldn't be more wrong. I actually work as a Professional Photographer and I would have carried on shooting and/or filming for far-more than Ghoulish reasons, which you sadly misconceive I have

When it comes to the actual collision, 20 people will have 20 points of view about how it happened. Video footage is brilliant at capturing actual direction and detail of collisions as-well as has been pointed out, the result of this occurring.

From the images we have seen and has been readily discussed, it appears the Skyraider collided with the P-51, these are all impressions of the incident. Now, as we have video and we have both pilots, they can explain what they saw and what they perceive happened, along with the footage that shows the events.

Now allied to that, video would also show an exterior of BBD and what damage had occurred along with the Pilots behaviour on bailing and also his position on landing relative to the crash site. If he had not been so lucky the video would have also have shown why he had failed in surviving. Now that doesn't mean I want to see/we want to see a Pilots demise posted her, but that video footage would have been incredibly useful to an ACI team figuring out why his chute never opened, if he hit a wing/tail/rudder all of which is denied by the moralistic POV of the video camera operator.

Sadly to be in a position to shoot that video doesn't mean you are a ghoul and if it does, surely posting any video clips of any incident fatal or non-fatal should all be censored as 'it's not right' to video this type of event (according to the moral viewpoint), however holding a video camera and filming an event is useful to the ACI, but as in this case no-one died, what is the point of not filming the incident, then bragging that it has been filmed (by showing the clip) and then saying "but I didn't think it was right, so I stopped filming!". If you didn't think it was right to film it, then why post footage afterwards? In which case, bragging rights go to the videographer, well done, you failed in capturing an important incident, but thanks for posting a clip that shows what happened but is not really much use to any pilots who find themselves in a similar (even if they are really unlucky) position.

I don't care if you consider me ghoulish, I presume the other 14,000 visitors to the Youtube link are similarly ghoulish, which is pretty much anyone who clicked on the link in this thread and was puzzled as to why a guy filming an important event turned his camera off and the other one turned his camera away.

I guess being a Professional makes me consider this event more important than others, it's shame I was one of the only ones to voice my opinion and been targeted because I can't understand why someone would stop filming something so interesting?

Odd.

MP