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Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

The Shoreham Air Disaster: Tragedy on the A27

Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman

True Crime

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In August 2015, a vintage Hawker Hunter jet performing at the Shoreham Airshow failed to complete a loop-the-loop manoeuvre — crashing onto the busy A27 below. Eleven innocent people were killed, and sixteen more were injured in one of the UK’s worst airshow disasters. In this episode, we explore how a day of family entertainment turned into chaos and carnage, the investigation that followed, and the controversial trial that raised serious questions about accountability and aviation safety. Why not BINGE our back catalogue of over a HUNDRED Patreon exclusive bonus episodes? Sign up and you can access them on Spotify really easily (or on the Patreon app, or wherever you normally listen - cancel any time): www.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast If you would like to GIFT a Patreon membership to a special someone, head to www.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast/gift If you would like to buy us a coffee (or wine!), hit the link below: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/seeingredtw⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get your merch here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.seeingredpodcast.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Theme music arranged and composed by Holly-Jane Shears - check her work out at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.soundcloud.com/DeadDogInBlackBag⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Co-Producer: Ade Parsley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Hello and welcome to seeing Red, a true crime podcast on Mark.

0:37.5

And I'm Bethan and thank you for joining us once again.

0:40.7

A huge thank you as well to our newest Patreon supporters.

0:44.1

So this week we have Caitlin Leitham, Sabina McMahon, Kev Airy, Gillian Leigh, Mag and Lindsay.

0:52.9

So thank you so much to each and every one of you.

0:57.0

So this week's case was suggested by Chloe Mordecai. So thank you so much for listening to the show

1:03.1

and for reaching out with your case request. This week we are going to be heading back to the skies.

1:08.8

But unlike Mark, I'm not going to be talking about a passenger plane.

1:12.8

Your episodes such as Season 13, episode 21 about Flight 961 and Season 3 episode 9 about the German Wings Flight 9525.

1:23.3

They really encouraged us to think about how we might react if we were at 30,000 feet and tragedy struck.

1:29.0

Do those episodes ring a bell for you, Mark?

1:32.3

I remember the German wings one because I feel like that was the Air France plane, possibly that crashed into the side of the Alps,

1:40.3

killing everybody on board. That was pilot, suicide and murder.

1:44.1

And then Flight 9-6-1 is your most

1:46.0

recent one with Ethiopia Airlines. And I listened to that on a walk and that was so shocking.

1:54.3

Because I didn't know much about the fact that there were so many hijacking attempts and it was

1:58.0

actually almost, I mean, like you said at the time, the majority were foiled before the plane even took off, but the fact that that was quite commonplace.

2:07.7

Nor will this episode feature, like in season 9, episode 16, a light aircraft such as the one that David Ibbotson and Emiliano Sala crossed the English Channel in on their fateful journey back in 2019.

2:19.6

Instead, we are going to be hearing about a very different plane. It is a Hawker Hunter T-7,

2:25.2

and we won't be hearing from the passengers, as there were none. And on that note, we won't

2:29.3

be hearing much from the pilot. Rather, we are going to be hearing from eyewitnesses on the ground

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