Mr Hill, a British Airways captain at the time, had been performs an movement at Shoreham known as a bent loop-the-loop before his jet-black disintegrated into the A27 in West Sussex, special courts heard.

Holding up a scale example of the Hawker Hunter, Mr Kark told jurors it had ascended to about 2,800 ft (8 50 m) when Mr Hill aimed the stunt.

The jet was “too low, maybe by as much as a 1,000 ft below the meridian required” at the top of the loop, special courts heard.

“Mr Hill should not have started his descent”, Mr Kark said, but “nevertheless continued the manoeuvre”.

‘Enormous heat’

The jury was shown footage of the jet-black disappearing behind a sequence of trees, before it “disintegrated and…caused a massive fireball”.

Spectator David Miles, who was standing on the “busy” road, “watched as the aircraft sunk down onto the road and exploded, ” the court discover.

“He examined a bang and started moving as fast as he could away from the accident, aware of course that wreckage would be coming his practice, ” Mr Kark said.

“He felt a tremendous hot and fell to the flooring. People that he had been standing next to is as simple as disappeared and the motorbikes he had noticed earlier were now only burning wreckage.”

Ten of the main victims died instantaneously, special courts heard, while the death of eleventh martyr Maurice Abrahams would have been “rapid” once his automobile was engulfed in flames.

Two other vehicles were “completely destroyed” along with their dwellers, Mr Kark said.

Pilot ‘incoherent’

The jury was told Mr Hill “miraculously escaped” when the aircraft broke up and he was propelled into a ditch.

At the panorama, he was able to give his name as “Andy” but was otherwise “incoherent”, Mr Kark said.

He abode intelligence gashes and rib fractures and has made a full recuperation, special courts learn.

Mr Hill has has frequently interviewed by police since the hurtle, compiling no observation each time, Mr Kark said.

On 1 June 2017, he equipped policemen with a 10 -page statement which said he had no impression of the hurtle and felt G-Force pressures may have contributed, Mr Kark said.

However, the prosecution said Mr Hill would have known “nothing unusual” for an experienced pilot, and witness witnes would discount the possibility of G-Force being a factor in the crash.

“In other texts he did not lose consciousness in that aircraft”, Mr Kark said.

Mr Hill, from Sandon, Hertfordshire, had served in the RAF between 1985 and 1994 before becoming a commercial-grade pilot, the court heard.

The trial would hear from watches likely to describe him as “highly competent and experienced, ” Mr Kark said.

‘Cavalier attitude’

However, “there have also been times when he has taken probabilities or winged in a way one has not been able to expect a careful and proficient quick spray showing aviator to do”, he told the court.

During a practice display at Duxford in Cambridgeshire in 2014 Mr Hill had hovered over the M11 at about 200 ft, well below the 500 ft minimum, Mr Kark said.

“Mr Hill, in short, was frisking fast and loose with the principles which are designed to keep people safe from aircraft performing aerobatic manoeuvres.”

Mr Kark said such incidents had demonstrated a “more cavalier demeanour to safe than was appropriate”.

The prosecutor said a display by Mr Hill at the 2014 Southport Air Show was halted where reference is “performed a hazardous manoeuvre” which “took him far too close to the crowd”.

Mr Kark said here event’s flight administrator took the “rare” step after a “stop, stop, stop” announce was published.

“It ought to have been a red light alarming to him to contrive his exposes with great care.”

“Unfortunately, on this moment in 2015 at Shoreham , no-one had time to call out a ‘stop’ and his parade ended in tragedy.

“The prosecution case is that it was Mr Hill’s serious negligence that produced immediately to the loss of those eleven lives, ” he added.

Of the 11 men who died, five were in motor vehicles and six others were eyewitness.

The trial is expected to last up to seven weeks.

The men who died

Matt Jones, a 24 -year-old personal trainer

Matthew Grimstone, 23, a Worthing United footballer who worked as a groundsman at Brighton& Hove Albion

Jacob Schilt, likewise 23 and likewise a Worthing United player, was hastening to a was in accordance with Mr Grimstone

Maurice Abrahams, 76, from Brighton, was a chauffeur on his room to pick up a bride on her bridal period

Friends Richard Smith, 26, and Dylan Archer, 42, who were going for a bicycle travel on the South Downs

Mark Reeves, 53, had ridden his motorcycle to the perimeter of Shoreham Airport to take photographs of the planes

Tony Brightwell, 53, from Hove was an aircraft enthusiast and had learnt to fly at Shoreham airfield

Mark Trussler, 54, had gone to watch the display on his Suzuki motorbike and was standing next to the road

Daniele Polito, 23 was travelling in the same auto as Mr Jones

James “Graham” Mallinson, 72, from Newick, was a photographer and retired architect

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