I`ve seen this all over facebook since it happened. I know the pilot, and he is a good pilot. He just made a bad decision after the tail hit the ground. I`m just thankful that the outcome was not much worse than it was. I`m pretty sure you will see nets in the 2017 IRCHA photo galleries though.

 

I think the pilot did well to hit throttle hold early. Very easy to freeze in such a high stress arena and things happen very fast after a tail strike... If the pilot did not hit throttle hold it would have been very ugly no doubt.

 

Ouch! ...... He "Beat it" alright. What happened I wonder?

 

Other than TH he did nothing to save it. Must have forgot he had people behind him. Silly boy.