The pilot in the Shoreham air disaster was flying too low and too slow to perform his stunt and failed to do the necessary escape manoeuvre before the crash that claimed 11 lives.

A final report into the 2015 tragedy found pilot Andrew Hill remained conscious throughout the flight but was untrained in escape manoeuvres, which would have still been possible before he plummeted into traffic.

Air accident investigators also called on the Department of Transport to sanction an independent review into the way flying displays in the UK are governed to increase safety levels.

They found a "lack of provisions" by the organisers to protect an area outside their control had increased the severity of the West Sussex disaster before the 52-year-old Mr Hill's loop-the-loop stunt went fatally wrong.

Responding to the report, the parents of victim Matthew Grimstone said the Civil Aviation Authority and the airshow organisers "have got much to answer for".

The report found Mr Hill, who survived the crash, had breached flying rules while flying the same aircraft at the previous year's airshow, travelling over a restricted area and was not told to stop by the flight director.

It also found the 1955 Hawker Hunter plane did not meet the requirements to fly.

Other key findings from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report include:

The final report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) sought to find how the disaster happened, what went wrong, and what safety measures could be brought in to protect future lives.

The AAIB final report was expected to help decide whether a criminal investigation by Sussex Police will be pursued.

Once that is determined a coroner's investigation and inquest will be held.

An earlier report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch had already found:

Safety regulations at UK air show have already been tightened as a result of the 2015 disaster.

The chair of the Civil Aviation Authority, Dame Deirdre Hutton, said the CAA will "action as a priority" 10 safety recommendations contained in the final AAIB report, in addition to 21 previous recommendations she said "all of which we have acted on".

"We are fully committed to ensuring that all air shows take place safely, for the six million people who attend them each year in the UK and for the communities in which they take place," she said.

The Shoreham Airshow will not be staged this summer, for the second year running, out of respect for the families of the victims.