Airshow crash horror: Moment pilot and passenger are killed as plane spins into the ground in front of horrified spectators in Hungary
- The small propeller-driven aircraft was flying at the Börgönd air on Sunday
- Video shows it perform a rotation movement before crashing into the ground
This is the moment a plane taking part in an airshow plummeted to the ground and burst into flames on Sunday, killing two people and injuring four on the ground.
The small propeller-driven aircraft was flying at the Börgönd air show in Fejér county near Budapest in Hungary when it crashed at around 3.20pm local time.
The pilot and passenger, aged 67 and 37, both died, while three people in a car near the impact site suffered serious burns and were hospitalised, police said.
It is understood that a little boy on the ground was also hurt.
Video footage of the crash online shows a small aircraft – a US Army T-28 Trojan built in 1951 – performing a rotation movement as it ascends and descends but it ultimately crashed and burst into flames.
This is the moment a plane taking part in an airshow plummeted to the ground and burst into flames on Sunday, killing two people and injuring four on the ground
The small propeller-driven aircraft was flying at the Börgönd air show in Fejér county near Budapest in Hungary when it crashed at around 3.20pm local time
Video footage of the crash online shows a small aircraft – a US Army T-28 Trojan built in 1951 – performing a rotation movement as it ascends and descends but it ultimately crashed and burst into flames
The terrifying clip shows the moment the plane hit the ground in front of horrified crowds, before a fireball and thick black smoke erupts into the sky.
‘The small aircraft crashed near a parked car and caught fire,’ police said.
The organizers of the event reportedly cancelled the rest of Sunday’s show.
‘The crowd of several thousand people at the site began to leave the site in an organized manner,’ the police statement read.
András Cser-Palkovics, the mayor of nearby Szekesfehervar, wrote on Facebook after the accident that what is usually a ‘day loved by thousands – turned into a tragedy.’
‘What happened today is a pain that is hard to put into words for our municipality, our entire city, and for me personally,’ he said.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known, and the identities of those killed and injured have not been released to the public.
