Disaster pilot was an ‘absolute gentleman’

A pilot who crashed a Hawker Hunter jet at the Shoreham Airshow disaster was ‘very safety conscious’, a court heard. Andy Hill, 54, had a miraculous escape when he crashed performing a loop-the-loop stunt in a 1955 Hawker Hunter. The Royal Air Force instructor was thrown from the aircraft as disintegrated on impact with the A27 in West Sussex in August 2015 claiming the lives of eleven victims, the Old Bailey has heard. Engineers who inspected the plane the day…