Wednesday 14 March 2012

Accident at German flight show kills 1, injures 38

BERLIN (AP) — 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 …

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