German Flight Show Accident
Category World | Monday, September 6th, 2010
People stand next to the debris of a small plane at the Lillinghof airfield near the Bavarian town of Lauf Germany Sunday Sept. 5, 2010. Police say the pilot of the small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking part at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators, leaving one person dead and several injured. A spokesman said Sunday that police had not yet established how many people were injured in the crash, at the Lillinghof airfield.
A pilot of a small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking off at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators Sunday, leaving one person dead and 38 injured, police said.
The crash occurred at the Lillinghof airfield about 20 miles (30 kilometers) northeast of the city of Nuremberg, where up to 5,000 people attended the flight show, German news agency ddp reported.
Five people were seriously injured, while 33 others were slightly injured, of whom 22 were taken to a hospital, a police spokesman said at a news conference. Among those hospitalized was a 7-year-old child.