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The Donington Disaster 1988

  • 10-07-2007 1:39am
    #1
    Its So Easy
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    As i'm sure we all know, this was an obvious low point in the whole monsters of Rock festival history. I have found something through Wikipedia which is a paper on the incidents at Donington in 1988.

    http://www.safeconcerts.com/documents/Donintondisater1988.pdf

    It's from one of the head security guys at the event and to be honest, even when i wasnt a GNR fan, i heard about the incident but i don't like how it was blamed 100% on one group or one specific thing.From reading the thing, its obvious that it was a few things that happened at the time which made the situation worse. It's an interesting read IMO, and gives another view other than the one the press gave at the time and the guy mentions the press and how they reported the tradgedy which it obviously was. And the two guys who died RIP.


Comments

  • #2
    neGev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭neGev


    Fixed link.


  • #3
    steveone
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    i remember this like it was yesterday....it was 20 years ago:eek: ....


  • #4
    Steoob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Steoob


    jesus thats pretty intense... must have been awful


  • #5
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    I'm impressed by the technical detail, I wonder do they have anyone in Ireland with as much expertise as this guy, he knows exactly what crowd densities are dangerous and why.

    I think the choice quote is
    ... people behind us climbed onto our backs in an attempt to what we now know to be crowd surfing.

    Scary to hear that people at the bottom of the collapse died with their bodies pushed 4 inches into the mud... they mustn't have had those plastic mats back then...


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