‘Were you too short to fly that plane?’

The pilot of the jet that crashed at the Shoreham air show has denied struggling to fly it because he is too short. Andy Hill, 54, had a miraculous escape when he crashed performing a loop-the-loop stunt in a 1955 Hawker Hunter on August 22, 2015 but eleven members of the public died. The Royal Air Force instructor was thrown from the aircraft as disintegrated on impact with the A27 in West Sussex. Hill was saved from the fireball that…