Police say a small propeller-driven aircraft has crashed throughout an airshow in central Hungary killing two folks and significantly injuring three folks on the bottom
ByThe Related Press
September 10, 2023, 3:31 PM
This picture launched by the Hungarian Police, reveals police investigators analyzing wreckage at a aircraft crash web site within the Borgond space, Hungary, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. Police say a small propeller-driven aircraft has crashed throughout an airshow in central Hungary killing two folks and significantly injuring three folks on the bottom on the Borgond air present in Fejer county. (Hungarian Police by way of AP)
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — A small propeller-driven aircraft crashed throughout an airshow in central Hungary on Sunday killing two folks and significantly injuring three folks on the bottom, police mentioned.
The deadly accident on the Börgönd air present in Fejér county occurred at about 3.20 p.m. native time and the trigger was not instantly recognized. The pilot and passenger, ages 67 and 37, each died, whereas three folks in a automotive close to the affect web site suffered critical burns and had been hospitalized, police mentioned in a press release.
Video footage of the crash on-line reveals a small plane performing a rotation motion because it ascends and descends however it finally crashed and burst into flames. The organizers of the occasion reportedly canceled the remainder of Sunday’s present.
“The gang of a number of thousand folks on the web site started to depart the positioning in an organized method,” the police assertion learn.
András Cser-Palkovics, the mayor of close by Szekesfehervar, wrote on Fb after the accident that what’s normally a “day beloved by 1000’s … became a tragedy.”
“What occurred right now is a ache that’s laborious to place into phrases for our municipality, our whole metropolis, and for me personally,” he mentioned.