I don't think anyone would argue that a military show team pilot is at the top of the heap in expertise regardless of their nationallity. Every now and then one of these guys screws up, and a crash is the result. Luckily in this case nobody was injured. Is this not a cool pic? Apparently he executed a split S from too low a start point, he knew he was in trouble, pointed the aircraft in a direction that kept it away from spectators and punched out within 1 second of impact. You can see the stabilator has a healthy amount of aft deflection, and the leading edge slats are deployed indicating a minimal forward airspeed, all the more unusual due to the nearly flat AOA.
