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The parents of a footballer who was killed in the Shoreham airshow disaster came home from visiting his grave to discover their daughter dead.
Caroline, 64, and Bob Schilt had left Louise, 34, at home watching television when they made the short trip to visit their son Jacob’s grave in Clayton, West Sussex.
But when they returned after an hour they found her lifeless body, with 70-year-old Bob desperately performing CPR on his daughter to try and save her life.
They dialled 999 with paramedics arriving in rapid time but heartbroken Caroline said: ‘She was gone.’
The grieving parents, from Brighton, revealed the double tragedy ahead of an inquest today into Louise’s death in 2023.
Caroline and Bob’s son Jacob, 23, was among the 11 killed in 2015 when pilot Andy Hill’s 1950s Hawker Hunter was in a fireball crash while performing in the airshow.
Caroline, 64, and Bob Schilt, 70, pictured holding up a picture of their son Jacob who died in the Shoreham airshow disaster. They came home after visiting his grave to find their daughter Louise dead
Keen horse rider Louise was fit and active until being struck down by a mysterious illness in December 2021
Jacob, 23, was among the 11 killed in 2015 when pilot Andy Hill’s 1950s Hawker Hunter was in a fireball crash while performing in the airshow
The University of Portsmouth graduate had been on the way to play an away football match with his Worthing United FC when the aircraft smashed into vehicles on the A27.
Caroline posted a picture on X a day after Louise’s death in April showing her beloved daughter smiling as she wore a blue hoodie as she stood next a horse.
The mother wrote at the time that they had been ‘robbed of our other child’.
‘Our lovely daughter Louise has died suddenly at home yesterday, cruel enough to lose Jacob in the Shoreham aircrash but now to be robbed of our our other child seems cruel beyond – the sweetest kindest girl we will always love you,’ she said.
Keen horse rider Louise was fit and active until being struck down by a mysterious illness in December 2021, The Mirror reported.
Doctors had told her she might have cancer but she was later diagnosed with an enlarged heart.
Louise died just two hours after being discharged from hospital where she had fluid drained from her chest for a third time.
The University of Portsmouth graduate had been on the way to play an away football match with his Worthing United FC when the aircraft smashed into vehicles on the A27
Bob (pictured in 2019 arriving at a pre-inquest hearing into the Shoreham airshow crash) tried to save his daughter’s life by performing CPR
Medics deemed her fit to return home 30 minutes after the procedure but Caroline said ‘she plainly wasn’t all right’.
‘When I brought her home she couldn’t even get out of the car,’ she said.
The retired teachers say Louise’s health got worse after having her second Covid booster jab.
But Bob said doctors ‘never found out what the virus was’ that she contracted as he added: ‘They never did the investigation to find out.’
To add to the Schilts’ anguish the hospital continued to send them letters in Louise’s name, even when the coroner’s office told them she was dead.
The inquest at West Sussex coroner’s court in Horsham is scheduled to last one day.
Earlier this month Mr Hill sparked outrage when he asked a court to give him his pilot’s licence back.
Lawyers for former RAF and BA pilot suggested the Civil Aviation Authority took the decision to stop him flying based on public reaction to the 2015 tragedy, an appeal panel heard.
His attempt to win back his pilot’s licence has prompted outrage from victims’ families, who say he does not deserve to fly again.
Eleven men were killed in August 2015 when Andrew Hill’s Hawker Hunter plane crashed while performing at the Shoreham Airshow in West Sussex
Emergency services are pictured on the scene of the tragedy which happened in August 2015 when a vintage fighter jet crashed on to the A27 in West Sussex
The victims of the Shoreham Airshow disaster were (top row left to right) Matthew Grimstone, Matt Jones, Mark Reeves, Tony Brightwell and Mark Trussler, and (bottom row left to right) Dylan Archer, Richard Smith, Graham Mallinson, Maurice Abrahams and Daniele Polito
A stretch of the A27 became a fireball after the plane slammed down minutes into the show
Floral tributes were laid near the scene of the Shoreham Airshow disaster in the following days
Andrew Hill, pictured outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court in April 2018, is appealing to have his pilot’s licence reinstated after it was suspended by the Civil Aviation Authority
Mr Hill, a former British Airways captain, nearly died at the side of the road after the 1950s Hawker Hunter he was flying crashed into a fireball on to the A27 in West Sussex in August 2015.
A panel at the International Dispute Resolution Centre in London began hearing his legal team argue his licence, which is currently suspended, should be reinstated.
The former pilot suffered serious injuries in the crash, including several broken bones and a collapsed lung, and was placed into an induced coma.
Stephen Spence, representing the pilot, today asked a CAA official who made the decision to suspend Mr Hill’s licence, ‘Had there been no fatalities, would the decision be the same?’
Ahead of the hearing, relatives of the 11 victims told of their anger at the prospect Mr Hill could fly again.
Caroline said: ‘We are furious that he even wants his licence back and considering his defence at the trial it is sheer arrogance that he thinks he deserves it.’
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