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The armchair analysts have been all over this accident.

One of the more informed observers I've seen suggested the bombers were in one stream with about 1000 ft off the spectator line, and the fighters about 1500 ft off. The P63 was third of the fighters, and he seems to have been closing too fast on the second fighter. The suggestion is he backed off by widening his turn. At closing speeds, that put the P63 into the bombers' track.

For the HMV crowd, I draw the lesson of speed and direction control, especially when moving in convoys or packets. When the Swords and Plowshares Museum puts its vehicles on the road for Canada Day parades, the experienced drivers keep reminding the others that drum brakes aren't as responsive as disks and turn signals are either tiny or done by hand. There is another column characteristic of accordioning with the last few vehicles either hard on the gas or standing on the brake pedal.