On 23 August 2015 two small aircraft collided in mid-air during a display at the Dittingen Airshow near Dittingen in Basel-Country, Switzerland.[1] The aircraft involved belonged to the German Grasshopper display team[2] and one pilot's aircraft parachuted safely to the ground[3] but the other, a 50-year old Austrian man, was killed.[4] The aircraft which crashed with fatal consequences had also deployed its parachute but it had failed to open. The aircraft plummeted to the ground and hit a barn in the village of Dittingen. The pilot was thought to have been killed on impact and no fatalities were reported among the people in the village. All the aircraft involved were Ikarus C42 microlights.[3]
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- ^ "Swiss airshow crash: Planes collide at Dittingen". bbc.com. BBC. 23 August 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ^ Bolton, Doug (23 August 2015). "Switzerland airshow crash: At least one dead after two planes collide in Dittingen". The Independent. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ^ a b Battaglia, Gabriela; Michel, Beat (24 August 2015). "So kam es zum Todes-Crash" [So it came to death crash]. Blick (in German). Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "Austrian pilot dies in air show crash". Boston Globe / Associated Press. 31 August 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2016.