This was a horrific tradition and as a reminder that tricks like this at low altitude are inherently dangerous and should only be done at higher altitude if at all. 2 big losses the pilot and his aircraft. Sorry Kid for your loss. but the lesson here is hard. respect the machine. because it has no respect for you. and don't hang your ass out over the edge unless your willing to go all the way. all pilots live that truth. I think this is representative over all of what not to do.
I saw this happen, it was horrendous. You could see it was going to end tragically. This performance was a late adjustment to the flying programme because the su27 didn't show up.
Pity of a lost life. Plane had no proper speed, lost lift force and on 0:18, after being about to stall, instead of roll left, he rolled right over the nose, to a counter side. Somehow, I believe he could escape the fall if he did it that way, although, he was doing that maneuver too close to the ground...RIP pilot
I think I recall reading that the air boss was already on the radio telling the pilot to knock it off and land because things didn't look right or he was messing up.
Double sadness,pilot and irreplaceable pice of history.My father ,now 81 has thousands of ours of flight and says, nothing more dangerous to use a tool for that it wasnt designed for,like using scwredrivers as hammers.Want to do stunts? get a cold mind,get the training, switch off testosterone get and PROPER PLANE ( extras,sukhois and many more).Thats what happens when you think only thing you need to pilot a warbird id money.Really sad, but hope helps to take lessons
The maneuver didn't look right when it went into the climb, it was bad all the way around. Insufficient power and altitude to complete a safe loop. What caused him to make this series of fatal decisions I don't know, unless there was a mechanical issue with the aircraft.
Hi, I am a pilot and I support the video being posted for the information it provides. It will save lives and it is the only video of an aircraft stalled and spinning in inverted flight.
please delete this video, i'm his sons Dan bancroft Wilsons girlfriend, and this is horrible to be put on youtube. its upsetting for his whole family to know his dads death video is put on youtube just for peoples entertainment. if you dont believe who i am look up dan bancroft Wilson on facebook and look up Jenny Mitchell and you will see we are both real people. so please delete this, its horrible.
Please remove this video, please for me.. his son, my name is Daniel Bancroft-Wilson, look me up on facebook if you dont belive me, i was 6 when this happend I really dont appreicate you putting up a video of my dad dying on the internet.
@McFishz If your father truly was the pilot, Guy Bancroft-Wilson, you have my sincere condolences. As a recreational pilot myself, it was not my intention that this video be posted for entertainment value but rather as an educational tool that may hopefully help other pilots avoid tragic accidents such as the one in this vid. May the pilot RIP and may his death, however tragic, serve as a reminder of the inherent dangers of aviation.
@marsh1998 I've already explained my reasons for not removing this vid. Even if the pilot was his father (may he RIP) it does not change my reasons for posting the vid - as an educational tool that may hopefully help other pilots avoid tragic accidents such as this one. I believe I have treated this incident and the pilot with respect. Also, I have removed multiple comments that I thought were disrespectful to the dead pilot.
@xekul Ya, this video should be removed from YT. Also remove any videos that have anything to do with 9/11. The video of the Titanic shot by Robert Ballard needs to be removed, people died on that ship. The Hindenburg, 32 people died there & you can clearly see that guy jump out of the front of that dirigible. The skateboard guy that gets run over by the car that needs to be removed. The Challenger explosion needs to be removed, the only thing we learned there was O-rings should not be frozen.
@McFishz However, forgive me if I am suspicious that you are not the pilots son. If you were 6 in 2001 that would make you around 16 now. However, your Youtube profile states you are 29. I did search for a FB profile for "Daniel Bancroft-Wilson" but the profile does not provide any info other than a high school and a pic of a skinny kid with no shirt on. Inasmuch as I have no way to verify your claim to be the pilots son I will not remove the vid. My apologies if you are who you claim.
I understand Guy left behind his wife, Mandy and three children, Sam (who has commented on one of the P-63 videos before), Josh and Daniel.
Daniel if it is indeed you then I'd also like to offer you both my condolences and to express just how stunningly good your dad's formation aerobatic displays were back in the mid-late 90s when I remember watching him fly this aeroplane with Steve Jones now famous for Red Bull air racing in TFC's P40. Your dad was a very gifted aviator.
this clip was the one my dad took, we were in the grandstand and the pilots wife and children were a couple of rows infront. He was a BA pilot and did this as a hobby. Dunno how you got the clip. it was horrible tho it was a huge power failure, i still remember the noise today, the airfield went silent as the plane spun towards the ground.
Man, I bet he realized he was screwed at the top while inverted. No way he was going to save it. Too slow, too low, and def. too bad. No do overs unfortunately. RIP
I was at biggin hill when this all happened, the guys wife and 2 children had lost their dad, biggin hill is a great event, if you live in england you HAVE to go to AIRBOURNE on EASTBOURNE SEAFRONT, its the largest free airshow in europe!!!!!!!!!
@Super16maN 3 children* i was one of them.. my name is Daniel Bancroft-Wilson, the other 2 were Sam and Josh. This happend on my birthday party. I will never forget him
The poor bloke. That mid-airframe engine layout was the undoubted cause, and it's found in both the P-39 and the P-63. The lack of weight in the nose makes the airplane respond to climbs quite unlike front-engined fighters. It's especially deceptive in inverted maneuvers, even to experienced pilots. (Chuck Yeager's training squadron flew P-39s, w/ so many fatal accidents that their CO was court-martialed.)
I don't see how the pilot was not able to pull out of that. Although he just about stalled at the top of the attempted loop, he seemed to have sufficient speed in the dive and even altitude - albeit not a lot, to right the plane.
Sorry about the pilot, and the loss of an irreplaceable aircraft.
all well and good saying its an old plane and old engine and they are not reliable but as a mechanic restoring warbirds i can tell you for a fact that WW2 relics are in BETTER condition than most airliners. i worked for a MAJOR airline as an airframe machanic and left them due to lack of care for thier planes. this accident was pure pilot error, he didnt have enough speed as he entered the climb and wing over stalled at the apex - inverted. at that altitude all he could do was close his eyes
You are absolutely right, this poor guy had sealed his fate long before reaching the inverted, way too little energy on the entry and nothing left at the top, nothing like enough height to recover from that situation.
@SuperAncientmariner Try reading the AAIB report into the crash it clearly states that the pilot failed to plan or practice the manuevers he was executing in the display, that he stalled out earlier in the same display, and that he failed to enter the final manuever with sufficient speed to complete it. I don't care how many years he flew with the Red Arrows, he made a littany of errors and the crash was his fault.
@WinchesterRanger I did'nt say it was,nt pilot error, I'm responding to your poor flying skills remark.. I knew Guy and he was a fine pilot. As the AAIB said , he was experienced and practiced and skilled. And as for being reported as a ponetial risk, if that was true he would have had his display license revoked.
@SuperAncientmariner Out of respect for the loss of your friend I retract my earlier comments. Even the best pilots can make mistakes, my sympathies for your loss.
I was there that day, i watched this happen, it was te most horrific thing i have ever seen, it haapen just after midday when there was a minutes silence held for 2 pilots that died there in a vampire the previous day, i kid you not, there was at leat 50,000 people there , you could of heard a pin drop across that airfield. very tragic, very sad no words to describe, i will never forget this as long as i live.
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ok all u fuck tards that dont have any respect 4 this vid + whoever put this online shud rot in hell the pilot of this plane is my best friends dad!!!!! hes gone thru so much and hes recenlty found out that the vid of his dad being blown up!!! is on the internet with fucking idiots saying ahh too bad why do these idiots do aerobatics in old planes well fuck u all off u! u see how much this hurts wen u no the person that died in that explotion!!! fuck all of u nd take this vid off the internet!!!
that´s what happens when you do things with something it was never intended for.want to hammer?, dont do it with screwdriver handle! want todo lowlevel batics? ok, take a sukhoi a sukhoi 26!
Definitely is a P-63...Looks like he ran out of steam going uphill, then stalled and went sideways to slow him down even more....Sad. The propeller torque may have played into it as he rolled out also.
i was there and thats exactly what happened but the sideways motion was a by-product of the c/g being so far back .he entered the loop too slow and too low. earlier in the display he nearly lost it and many ground crew thought he was going to land after ,what they described as " a brown trousers manouvre" but he probably felt determined to see out the display. a good pilot sorely missed....
From what I heard, the air boss saw he was not executing the display properly and was already on the radio telling him to quit and land, but it was too late.
Once again, I'm his son. I'm 16 years old, please remove this video, it really isn't nice having a video of you're father dying.
McFishz 1 month ago
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wcolbyHD 3 months ago
This was a horrific tradition and as a reminder that tricks like this at low altitude are inherently dangerous and should only be done at higher altitude if at all. 2 big losses the pilot and his aircraft. Sorry Kid for your loss. but the lesson here is hard. respect the machine. because it has no respect for you. and don't hang your ass out over the edge unless your willing to go all the way. all pilots live that truth. I think this is representative over all of what not to do.
par4par72 5 months ago
I saw this happen, it was horrendous. You could see it was going to end tragically. This performance was a late adjustment to the flying programme because the su27 didn't show up.
Hedge191 5 months ago
The man, who is running out in 0:38 must be SHOCKED.
pattmelodyz 7 months ago
Pity of a lost life. Plane had no proper speed, lost lift force and on 0:18, after being about to stall, instead of roll left, he rolled right over the nose, to a counter side. Somehow, I believe he could escape the fall if he did it that way, although, he was doing that maneuver too close to the ground...RIP pilot
rallgunther 7 months ago
@rallgunther
I think I recall reading that the air boss was already on the radio telling the pilot to knock it off and land because things didn't look right or he was messing up.
FiveCentsPlease 6 months ago
Double sadness,pilot and irreplaceable pice of history.My father ,now 81 has thousands of ours of flight and says, nothing more dangerous to use a tool for that it wasnt designed for,like using scwredrivers as hammers.Want to do stunts? get a cold mind,get the training, switch off testosterone get and PROPER PLANE ( extras,sukhois and many more).Thats what happens when you think only thing you need to pilot a warbird id money.Really sad, but hope helps to take lessons
mig15fan 7 months ago
The maneuver didn't look right when it went into the climb, it was bad all the way around. Insufficient power and altitude to complete a safe loop. What caused him to make this series of fatal decisions I don't know, unless there was a mechanical issue with the aircraft.
helio295 8 months ago
Hi, I am a pilot and I support the video being posted for the information it provides. It will save lives and it is the only video of an aircraft stalled and spinning in inverted flight.
007wingman 9 months ago
Thats not a Jug a jug is a P47.
mandaltby 10 months ago
The AAIB report is the only true source of fact, but at least the petrol went up!
buckachiddy 1 year ago
A terrible tragedy.
SOCKCOCK1 1 year ago
please delete this video, i'm his sons Dan bancroft Wilsons girlfriend, and this is horrible to be put on youtube. its upsetting for his whole family to know his dads death video is put on youtube just for peoples entertainment. if you dont believe who i am look up dan bancroft Wilson on facebook and look up Jenny Mitchell and you will see we are both real people. so please delete this, its horrible.
1Jebby 1 year ago
Please remove this video, please for me.. his son, my name is Daniel Bancroft-Wilson, look me up on facebook if you dont belive me, i was 6 when this happend I really dont appreicate you putting up a video of my dad dying on the internet.
McFishz 1 year ago 3
@McFishz If your father truly was the pilot, Guy Bancroft-Wilson, you have my sincere condolences. As a recreational pilot myself, it was not my intention that this video be posted for entertainment value but rather as an educational tool that may hopefully help other pilots avoid tragic accidents such as the one in this vid. May the pilot RIP and may his death, however tragic, serve as a reminder of the inherent dangers of aviation.
xekul 1 year ago 6
@xekul ..dude is was his dad.. remove it
marsh1998 6 months ago
@marsh1998 I've already explained my reasons for not removing this vid. Even if the pilot was his father (may he RIP) it does not change my reasons for posting the vid - as an educational tool that may hopefully help other pilots avoid tragic accidents such as this one. I believe I have treated this incident and the pilot with respect. Also, I have removed multiple comments that I thought were disrespectful to the dead pilot.
xekul 6 months ago
@xekul ..so your saying, learn from this awful pilot??
marsh1998 6 months ago
@xekul Ya, this video should be removed from YT. Also remove any videos that have anything to do with 9/11. The video of the Titanic shot by Robert Ballard needs to be removed, people died on that ship. The Hindenburg, 32 people died there & you can clearly see that guy jump out of the front of that dirigible. The skateboard guy that gets run over by the car that needs to be removed. The Challenger explosion needs to be removed, the only thing we learned there was O-rings should not be frozen.
wcolbyHD 3 months ago
@McFishz However, forgive me if I am suspicious that you are not the pilots son. If you were 6 in 2001 that would make you around 16 now. However, your Youtube profile states you are 29. I did search for a FB profile for "Daniel Bancroft-Wilson" but the profile does not provide any info other than a high school and a pic of a skinny kid with no shirt on. Inasmuch as I have no way to verify your claim to be the pilots son I will not remove the vid. My apologies if you are who you claim.
xekul 1 year ago 2
@xekul
I understand Guy left behind his wife, Mandy and three children, Sam (who has commented on one of the P-63 videos before), Josh and Daniel.
Daniel if it is indeed you then I'd also like to offer you both my condolences and to express just how stunningly good your dad's formation aerobatic displays were back in the mid-late 90s when I remember watching him fly this aeroplane with Steve Jones now famous for Red Bull air racing in TFC's P40. Your dad was a very gifted aviator.
jamieduff1981 10 months ago
When will people learn to stop performing low altitude acrobatics in historic airplanes?
Ha1cyonDays 1 year ago 2
Brits lose more damned airplanes, I tell you what. Always in loops and rolls too. I fly just Cessnas, but come on, people!
freiherrudet 1 year ago
this clip was the one my dad took, we were in the grandstand and the pilots wife and children were a couple of rows infront. He was a BA pilot and did this as a hobby. Dunno how you got the clip. it was horrible tho it was a huge power failure, i still remember the noise today, the airfield went silent as the plane spun towards the ground.
liamp1994 1 year ago
Low or improper octane in the fuel could have contributed to this accident.
bikewhiz 1 year ago
That's a huge number of words used to say the pilot screwed up, crashed the plane, and died.
schlusselmensch 1 year ago
Rest in Peace Guy Bancroft Wilson. Former Red Arrows Pilot 1989
easygoinguklad 1 year ago
My cuz was there, at that moment, It upset him badly : (
tomhughestrainz 1 year ago
Man, I bet he realized he was screwed at the top while inverted. No way he was going to save it. Too slow, too low, and def. too bad. No do overs unfortunately. RIP
check6ii 1 year ago
Sad to See that, Not enough speed in the dive and to mch of a climb causing a stall, it looks like. RIP Fellow Aviator!
derekeves1 1 year ago
I was at biggin hill when this all happened, the guys wife and 2 children had lost their dad, biggin hill is a great event, if you live in england you HAVE to go to AIRBOURNE on EASTBOURNE SEAFRONT, its the largest free airshow in europe!!!!!!!!!
Super16maN 1 year ago
@Super16maN 3 children* i was one of them.. my name is Daniel Bancroft-Wilson, the other 2 were Sam and Josh. This happend on my birthday party. I will never forget him
xdanny2k10 1 year ago
@xdanny2k10 r u serious? sorry man, its was a horrible day, r.i.p ur dad
Super16maN 1 year ago
The poor bloke. That mid-airframe engine layout was the undoubted cause, and it's found in both the P-39 and the P-63. The lack of weight in the nose makes the airplane respond to climbs quite unlike front-engined fighters. It's especially deceptive in inverted maneuvers, even to experienced pilots. (Chuck Yeager's training squadron flew P-39s, w/ so many fatal accidents that their CO was court-martialed.)
jrcadet4 1 year ago
I was there that day with my two sons. And it was an awful and terrible thing to see. I really feel for the poor pilot and his family. R.I.P x x
katcooper78 1 year ago 3
@katcooper78 Thanks, i was one of his sons, my name is Daniel, Daniel Bancroft-Wilson. I was 6 when it happend.
xdanny2k10 1 year ago
Low octane in the fuel could have been a contributing factor in this crash.
bikewhiz 1 year ago
I was there when that happened with dad he is a firefighter at biggen hill airport and that a pritty site
jonny99981 1 year ago
I was there when that happened with my dad he is a firefighter at biggen hill airport it was not a pritty site
jonny99981 1 year ago
I don't see how the pilot was not able to pull out of that. Although he just about stalled at the top of the attempted loop, he seemed to have sufficient speed in the dive and even altitude - albeit not a lot, to right the plane.
Sorry about the pilot, and the loss of an irreplaceable aircraft.
LateNightCable 2 years ago
i think this is a p39 aircobra. i may be wrong
amediastintas 2 years ago
@amediastintas no it's a kingcobra it's bigger and has a more squarer tail,
pramboy09 2 years ago
wow. there most not be very many of these then
amediastintas 2 years ago
@amediastintas less than a handfull worldwide flying
pramboy09 2 years ago
poor pilot. RIP
Orange4two 2 years ago
Jep taas jälki viisaita :P
Nannu65 2 years ago
all well and good saying its an old plane and old engine and they are not reliable but as a mechanic restoring warbirds i can tell you for a fact that WW2 relics are in BETTER condition than most airliners. i worked for a MAJOR airline as an airframe machanic and left them due to lack of care for thier planes. this accident was pure pilot error, he didnt have enough speed as he entered the climb and wing over stalled at the apex - inverted. at that altitude all he could do was close his eyes
MikeDay82 2 years ago 2
@MikeDay82
You are absolutely right, this poor guy had sealed his fate long before reaching the inverted, way too little energy on the entry and nothing left at the top, nothing like enough height to recover from that situation.
andyw92 2 years ago 7
After nearly stalling earlier in his routine, you think the pilot would have learned from his mistake.
Evidently he was known to have poor flying skills and had been reported previously as a potential risk - not any more.
WinchesterRanger 2 years ago
@WinchesterRanger Poor flying skills, bullshit. Guy was an ex Red Arrow. They don't have poor flying skills
SuperAncientmariner 1 year ago
@SuperAncientmariner Try reading the AAIB report into the crash it clearly states that the pilot failed to plan or practice the manuevers he was executing in the display, that he stalled out earlier in the same display, and that he failed to enter the final manuever with sufficient speed to complete it. I don't care how many years he flew with the Red Arrows, he made a littany of errors and the crash was his fault.
WinchesterRanger 1 year ago
@WinchesterRanger I did'nt say it was,nt pilot error, I'm responding to your poor flying skills remark.. I knew Guy and he was a fine pilot. As the AAIB said , he was experienced and practiced and skilled. And as for being reported as a ponetial risk, if that was true he would have had his display license revoked.
SuperAncientmariner 1 year ago
@SuperAncientmariner "potential" even
SuperAncientmariner 1 year ago
@SuperAncientmariner Out of respect for the loss of your friend I retract my earlier comments. Even the best pilots can make mistakes, my sympathies for your loss.
WinchesterRanger 1 year ago
@WinchesterRanger I can only say that I knew him, I cannot claim that we were friends as such, but it was still a loss to the airshow community.
SuperAncientmariner 1 year ago
grandad49's right ............. but they can't treet a 7ton monster like a 250kg extra... (catch my drift hear.)
bamsawa 2 years ago
I was there that day, i watched this happen, it was te most horrific thing i have ever seen, it haapen just after midday when there was a minutes silence held for 2 pilots that died there in a vampire the previous day, i kid you not, there was at leat 50,000 people there , you could of heard a pin drop across that airfield. very tragic, very sad no words to describe, i will never forget this as long as i live.
joannawoman 2 years ago
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ok all u fuck tards that dont have any respect 4 this vid + whoever put this online shud rot in hell the pilot of this plane is my best friends dad!!!!! hes gone thru so much and hes recenlty found out that the vid of his dad being blown up!!! is on the internet with fucking idiots saying ahh too bad why do these idiots do aerobatics in old planes well fuck u all off u! u see how much this hurts wen u no the person that died in that explotion!!! fuck all of u nd take this vid off the internet!!!
grandad94 2 years ago
these loops should be done 1000 foot higher with these old planes-the engines aren't reliable
FantomShadowz 2 years ago
It is not the engine's fault mate, he did not have enough ENTRY speed for a loop, and he was low down. Let us leave the pilot Rest In Peace.
Irvine5312x6ma 2 years ago
i was there when i was 5 im 11 now
TheHazzerz 2 years ago
WHy do these idiots insist on doing aerobatics in these old birds?
curtisshawk 2 years ago
Because nobody wants to see a dogfighter fly in straight lines
BMunich16 2 years ago
he stalled at the peak of the loop.... sad video
Warbirdguy1 2 years ago
yea stall and roll to dig a hole
transdrole 2 years ago
I'm saving a drink for that guy tonight. and a smoke. my condolances.
carelessband 2 years ago
Too bad, it's a super rare plane, not the mention the dead guy.
jabberwock11 2 years ago
Right on 0:14 it started trouble.
GTXmn44 2 years ago
That's not a JUG.. but it sure did attack the ground..
WonderWeasel2 2 years ago
bell-36 king cobra
pker8 3 years ago
that´s what happens when you do things with something it was never intended for.want to hammer?, dont do it with screwdriver handle! want todo lowlevel batics? ok, take a sukhoi a sukhoi 26!
mig15fan 3 years ago
Definitely is a P-63...Looks like he ran out of steam going uphill, then stalled and went sideways to slow him down even more....Sad. The propeller torque may have played into it as he rolled out also.
slinky52ya 3 years ago
i was there and thats exactly what happened but the sideways motion was a by-product of the c/g being so far back .he entered the loop too slow and too low. earlier in the display he nearly lost it and many ground crew thought he was going to land after ,what they described as " a brown trousers manouvre" but he probably felt determined to see out the display. a good pilot sorely missed....
debowli 2 years ago
From what I heard, the air boss saw he was not executing the display properly and was already on the radio telling him to quit and land, but it was too late.
FiveCentsPlease 2 years ago
I believe this to be a Bell P-63, not a Bell P-39.
cwilkinson099 3 years ago 2
you may be right, the airframes on the two are very similar.
xekul 3 years ago
@xekul p63 had a bigger tail wing and had a 4 propeller prop
iphone3gs2208 1 year ago
@cwilkinson099 ye im 90% sure thats a p63
Mattebubben 1 year ago