Another airshow plane crash!

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Would a plane of this vintage have had a ejection seat? Seems like it would, but maybe the aircraft was demilitarized for civilian airshow use.

Of course, I suppose that would look even worse in retrospect if the pilot bails in a vertical direction and parachutes to safety while his errant plane belly-flops in a major motorway.

Happened here in Germany with a Canadian F104 in 1983. The plane crashed on a motorway while doing a display with 4 other Starfighters and killed 6 people. The pilot ejected before impact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...incidents#1983