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Air show accidents around the world

From United Kingdom to Austria, this week saw a range of air shows that killed and injured many people on the scene.

August 31, 2015 10:05 am | Updated March 29, 2016 06:15 pm IST

A crane lifts a section of the Hawker Hunter jet that crashed into a highway Saturday after it failed to pull out of a loop maneuver during the Shoreham Airshow, near Shoreham, England, about 75 kilometers (45 miles) south of London, Monday Aug. 24, 2015. Police said the death toll in the crash will probably rise as emergency workers probe wreckage on the freeway where the plane went down, plowing through cars on the road and exploding in a huge fireball. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

A crane lifts a section of the Hawker Hunter jet that crashed into a highway Saturday after it failed to pull out of a loop maneuver during the Shoreham Airshow, near Shoreham, England, about 75 kilometers (45 miles) south of London, Monday Aug. 24, 2015. Police said the death toll in the crash will probably rise as emergency workers probe wreckage on the freeway where the plane went down, plowing through cars on the road and exploding in a huge fireball. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

A look at the recent air shows that went haywire:

Air show accidents

>Britain

A military jet crashed into a busy main road on August 22, killing 7 people and injuring more than a dozen others in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton in southern England.

>Switzerland

Two planes collided in the air in northern Switzerland on August 23 in the village Dittingen near Basel. The third plane was not involved in the crash and landed safely.

>Austria

A small plane crashed at an air show in southern Austria on August 30, fatally injuring the pilot at the Hirt airfield, near the town of Friesach in the southern province of Carinthia.

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