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Shoreham air crash pilot Andrew Hill has flying bid rejected
The pilot whose plane crashed at the Shoreham Airshow, killing 11 men, has had his bid to have his licences returned turned down, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said.
Andrew Hill was piloting a vintage aircraft that crashed onto the A27 while performing a manoeuvre at the airshow in West Sussex in 2015.
His licence was suspended by the CAA following the incident.
He appealed against the decision but the CAA confirmed on Thursday that his pilot and flight radio telephony licences will “formally be revoked”.
In a statement, a CAA spokesperson said: “Following a public hearing on a challenge by Andrew Hill to a UK CAA proposal to revoke his pilot and flight radio telephony licences, the decision panel has confirmed that proposal and Andrew Hill’s licences will now formally be revoked.”
Mr Hill has been unable to fly in the UK since 2015 following the incident.
The CAA spokesperson added: “The thoughts of everyone at the UK Civil Aviation Authority remain with those affected by the tragic crash.”
Mr Hill was charged with 11 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence, but was found not guilty after a trial in March 2019.
In December 2022, a coroner ruled that his significant errors and “poor” flying of the Hawker Hunter plane led to the 11 men being unlawfully killed.
‘Gravity of the errors’
In a report issued by the CAA, it said that Hill “still seeks to disassociate himself from any meaningful responsibility for the accident”, by maintaining that he has “no explanation” for what happened and refers to himself in the third person rather than the first.
The report said these actions by Hill “call into question the Applicant’s fitness to hold the relevant licences.”
It added: “Suspension of any of the licences is not appropriate, especially in light of the gravity of the errors and their consequences”.
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