[ExNewsExSpook]

Looks like he mis-judged the loop; gotta give yourself enough altitude to pull out at the bottom. To be fair, it’s more difficult to judge altitude over the water.

Marine Corps F/A-18 had a similar mishap at the El Toro Air Show back in 1988; the pilot, Colonel Jerry Cadick, was severely injured, but survived. He passed away in 2015. Afterwards, the liked to joke that he “broke” a “perfectly good F/A-18.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFSSJSFtd2k

[Yo-Yo]

The Air Force Thunderbirds had a very similar accident in 2003 at Mtn. Home AFB. The cause of the Thunderbird accident was an altimeter setting error.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alo_XWCqNUQ