Locked in a fatal dive, the jet in the Shoreham Airshow tragedy roars just feet above a busy road before impact.
A split second later, the vintage Hawker Hunter was a fireball as it slammed into traffic, killing 11 men.
The dramatic footage, shot by spectators, was shown to a jury yesterday as pilot Andy Hill faced charges of manslaughter by gross negligence.
Hill was performing a loop-the-loop stunt in the 1950s jet that was said to be 1,000 feet too low and too slow.
But, unable to pull out of a dive, it screams low above the road before crashing into three vehicles on the busy A27 in West Sussex.
Relatives of the victims watched quietly yesterday as footage shot from a number of perspectives were shown to the OId Bailey.
The jet is pictured seconds before it crashed into the dual carriageway in West Sussex, killing 11 people at the Shoreham Air Show in 2015
Mr Hill is claiming to have suffered a 'cognitive impairment' when he was flying the Hawker Hunter (pictured, left, ascending to perform the stunt and, right, descending)
Tom Kark QC, prosecuting, previously told the court the crash was 'purely' because of 'pilot error' after the aircraft was flown too low and too slow before he attempted a loop.
Although normally a careful and competent pilot, the court heard of some past incidents where he had played 'fast and loose' with the rules and appeared to have a 'cavalier attitude' towards safety.
Mr Hill (pictured arriving at the Old Bailey yesterday) has denied manslaughter following the disaster
After showing the footage, Mr Kark told jurors there was a 'catalogue of errors' on Hill's part, including that he failed to take evasive action to carry out an escape manoeuvre.
Jurors were also shown footage shot by spectators at the side of the road which shows the plane in the sky performing the stunt and crashing into the main road, engulfing victims who were in cars standing nearby.
Hill, of Buntingford, Hertfordshire, watched the beginning of the footage but lowered his head in the dock when the moment of impact was shown before looking at the jury.
Immediately after the crash he told emergency services he did not remember or know what happened but felt 'terrible' and had been feeling unwell, the court heard.
Mr Kark said: 'The aircraft crashed as a result of Mr Hill's negligence and as such this breach of duty caused the deaths of 11 men.
'Having regard to the serious and obvious risk of death, the negligence of Mr Hill was truly exceptionally bad such as to amount to the criminal offence of gross negligence manslaughter.'
He said exposure to G force was 'routine' for any experienced pilot and that cognitive impairment was different to the temporary effects of G force, adding: 'If a pilot continued to fly an aerobatic display above a crowd of spectators, knowing that he was unwell, then that, we would suggest, would be capable of amounting to a gross breach of his duty of care.'
Prosecutors told the jury that the pilot (inset) was too low and too slow at the point of take-off into the loop on Wednesday, as illustrated in this graphic
The jet can be seen descending over the dual carriageway, which it would crash into seconds later, killing 11 people and sending a ball of flames into the air
Some 11 men were killed in the disaster which happened at 1.22pm on August 22 2015 (pictured: plumes of smoke rise in Shoreham)
Mr Kark told how Hill had 'miraculously' survived the killer crash, saying: 'Mr Hill, in the cockpit of the aircraft was of course sitting at the front of what was in effect a very large jet.
'It appears that the cockpit carried on travelling and the destruction caused by the crash was mostly behind him.
'His seat was thrown clear of the cockpit after impact and just before the aircraft came to rest. When initial responders arrived, they found Mr Hill a few feet away from the cockpit and out of his seat which was partially trapped beneath the cockpit.
'It is believed that his ejector seat partially activated due to impact forces and he was separated from his seat as part of the seat design.
'Although Mr Hill had a handle which he could pull to eject himself from the aircraft, it could not be used as low height and the ejection sequence was not instigated by Mr Hill. There is no evidence that Mr Hill pulled the ejection handle.'
Horrified witnesses at the Shoreham air show disaster ran for their lives and saw people 'disappear' from right next to them, jurors heard.
Others reported that the plane was flying too low before it crashed and burst into flames on the A27, a court heard.
Flames burst from behind the trees following the crash at the Shoreham Air Show in 2015 (pictured) as the pilot failed to execute his loop
Mr Hill had been performing a 'bent loop' stunt at the popular air show when the crash happened. It was said he did not reach the required height but continued with the stunt anyway.
The Old Bailey also heard that he flew dangerously in an air show just a year before the tragedy going dangerously close to the crowd.
The aircraft at Shoreham was about 1,000 feet short of the height necessary to reach to perform the bent loop, it was said.
David Milnes, an experienced Shoreham air show attender, watched as the wreckage hurtled towards him.
Mr Kark said: 'He planned to watch the air show from the A27 road. When he got there, he noticed some people standing near the traffic lights.
'He watched the Hunter and was concerned at how slowly it appeared to be flying while attempting to loop. He had noted that unusually the Hunter appeared to have begun its loop closer to the road than the runway.
'He watched as the aircraft descended down onto the road and exploded. He heard a bang and started running as fast as he could away from the crash, aware that the wreckage would be coming his way.
'He felt an enormous heat and fell to the floor. People that he had been standing next to had simply disappeared and the motorbikes he had noticed earlier
