An excellent Opinion piece from NZ display pilot Vaughn Davis on the South Africa-New Zealand rugby game flyover.
"Sunday morning’s flyover could have been great. Two sizeable jets flying close together a couple of hundred feet over a packed stadium would have been a fantastic start to a memorable match. Removing the safety margin that altitude provides turned it into a risk that 56,000 people shouldn’t have been forced to take."
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