On the 2nd of June 2016, Blue Angel 6 had just started his display sequence when something went horribly wrong. Spectators of the practice flight saw the aircraft descending rapidly followed by a fireball and a thick plume of smoke just past the runway.
Now we have some answers. Fatal Crash of Blue Angel 6 offers an analysis of the military investigation for the layman and explains why the headlines are wrong to simply call it "pilot error".