A survivor of a filmed aerial stunt gone wrong says his scrambled headspace clouded his recollection of the fatal incident.
Pilot Stephen Gale, 56, and cameraman James Rose, 30, were killed when the Viper S-211 plane they were in nosedived into Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay during a formation flight with another Viper in November 2023.
They were filming to promote a mooted TV program, Any Fool Can Fly, when the former fighter jets collided about 12km west of Mount Martha, on the Mornington Peninsula.