article: Vivien Ayling was driving to work along the A27 when she says the jet crashed on the road beside her. She told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I saw this plane coming towards me and I thought 'Gosh, he's really low, is that allowed?' "And then all of a sudden he got lower and I thought 'He's going to come straight into me' and then he veered off to my right and he just smacked straight on to the opposite carriageway to me, and then there was this massive great fireball and smoke went up." The aftermath was "like a bomb exploding", she said, adding: "I decided to drive on through it - it fortunately went over my head. "I stopped, looked back and thought there's going to be another explosion with all this aviation fuel around so I thought what do I do? So I thought best get out of there. "You don't know what you'd do in that situation. I did what I felt was right in a split second." She believes pilot Andy Hill was trying to avoid the road: "He obviously was trying to get to the field rather to land on them, on the road. That's probably why he veered off and didn't end up in my carriageway." Dave Hampton was at the air show with his family. "We were behind the marquee at the time, having a picnic and we had literally turned up 10 minutes before," he said. "We saw the Hawker Hunter fly over the marquee, we saw it fly up, then we saw it almost turn around to come back. "Our two boys who are very passionate about planes asked where the plane was and we said it would be along in a minute when we heard what sounded like a sonic boom - it sounded like the plane had broken the sound barrier. "People around us then started standing up and saying 'Oh my God, it's come down' and at that time we looked over and we saw the big plume of smoke coming over the marquee." Gairo Gomez, who works at the nearby Ricardo Technological Centre, said the whole building shook. "I saw the plane going down. I heard a huge bang and the glass was shaking and the doors were banging, the whole building was shaking. "I saw some smoke later on, but at the time I didn't realise what had happened." Archie Tipple was a spectator at the event. "We were stood on a footbridge by the Red Lion Inn, about 300m from the A27. "I was photographing the aircraft as it started its display and as it climbed and climbed and climbed I thought, this is pretty good. "But he was coming in a little bit low and I was still photographing it as it came down and then all of a sudden you just knew what was coming. "It just immediately changed the atmosphere, from a festive one to something quite sombre," he said. Nicholas Hair described the aftermath at the airfield. "Strangely enough the first thing that
summary: Eyewitnesses have described the scene as a vintage jet crashed while performing at an air show in West Sussex.