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The Bournemouth Air Festival is an annual air show held along the coast at Bournemouth, in Dorset, England. It has featured aircraft from the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, as well as civil aviation displays. Since its formation in 2008, the festival claims to have entertained over ten million people.
The incident occurred after a display at the Bournemouth Air Festival in Bournemouth, Dorset. It was determined that Flt Lt Egging was incapacitated due to the effects of g-force induced loss of consciousness until very shortly before impact. Egging was the first Red Arrows pilot to die in an aircraft crash in the 21st century, since Flt Lt ...
A Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team "Red Arrows" aircraft (BAE Hawk T1) crashed after performing at an air show in Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom. The aircraft was witnessed to have plunged into the ground next to the River Stour, near the village of Throop. The pilot, 33-year-old Flt. Lt. Jon Egging, was killed in the crash. [151]
20 August 2011 - XX179, a Red Arrows Hawk T.1 was flying as part of a display at Bournemouth Air Festival. The team were 'recovering' (flying back to) Bournemouth Airport when XX179 crashed into a field near to the River Stour, killing its pilot, Flt Lt Jon Egging.
On 4 September 2021, as part of a two-ship formation wing walking display at the Bournemouth Air Festival, one of the AeroSuperBatics Boeing Stearman aircraft crashed into the sea near the Sandbanks Ferry, Poole Harbour, after the biplane suffered an unrecoverable mechanical failure of its engine. [25]
As council leader she has been responsible in negotiations surrounding the future of the Bournemouth Air Festival. [11] In September 2024, the "Best Value Notice" the Government put on BCP Council was lifted with Earl saying the council was in a "much healthier place".
Dorset hosts a number of annual festivals, fairs and events including the Great Dorset Steam Fair near Blandford, one of the largest events of its kind in Europe, [183] and the Bournemouth Air Festival, a free air show that attracted 1.3 million visitors in 2009. [184] The Spirit of the Seas is a maritime festival held in Weymouth and Portland.
The air festival attracts up to a million people over the four-day event. [152] [153] Bournemouth 7s Festival is a sports and music festival taking place in May each year. Hosting rugby, netball, hockey, dodgeball and volleyball tournaments, the event is a celebration of team sports in a festival atmosphere and was launched in 2008.