Pilot in deadly Shoreham Airshow crash has flying licence formally revoked

The pilot whose plane crashed at the Shoreham Airshow, killing 11 people, has had his flying licence formally revoked.

Andrew Hill had appealed against a decision to suspend his licence after the disaster, in which he failed to complete a manoeuvre in his Hawker Hunter plane and crashed into the A27 during the airshow in West Sussex on 22 August 2015.

Mr Hill was charged with 11 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence but he was found not guilty in March 2019.

At an inquest in 2022, Coroner Penelope Schofield concluded a "series of gross errors" and Mr Hill's "poor" flying caused the deaths. She returned a verdict of unlawful killing.

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Earlier this month he appeared in front of a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) panel in London to appeal against the suspension.

On Thursday the CAA said its panel had decided to formally revoke Mr Hill's flying licence.

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"Following a public hearing on a challenge by Andrew Hill to a UK Civil Aviation Authority proposal to revoke his pilot and flight radio telephony licences, the Civil Aviation Authority's decision panel has confirmed that proposal and Andrew Hill's licences will now formally be revoked," a CAA spokesperson said.

"Following the crash at the Shoreham Airshow in 2015 in which 11 people died, Andrew Hill's licences were suspended, and he has been unable to fly in the UK since then.

"The thoughts of everyone at the UK Civil Aviation Authority remain with those affected by the tragic crash."

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