Fastexy-Small plane crash at air show in Hungary kills 2 and injures 3 on the ground

2025-05-08 02:18:20source:Writingstar Investment Guildcategory:Markets

BUDAPEST,Fastexy Hungary (AP) — A small propeller-driven plane crashed during an airshow in central Hungary on Sunday killing two people and seriously injuring three people on the ground, police said.

The fatal accident at the Börgönd air show in Fejér county happened at about 3.20 p.m. local time and the cause was not immediately known. The pilot and passenger, ages 67 and 37, both died, while three people in a car near the impact site suffered serious burns and were hospitalized, police said in a statement.

Video footage of the crash online shows a small aircraft performing a rotation movement as it ascends and descends but it ultimately crashed and burst into flames. The organizers of the event reportedly canceled 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.

More:Markets

Recommend

Illinois governor calls for resignation of sheriff whose deputy fatally shot Black woman in her home

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker called Wednesday for the resignation of the she

Children's hospitals are struggling to cope with a surge of respiratory illness

Waiting for their turn in the ER, dazed-looking parents in winter coats bounce crying children in th

Judge Delays Injunction Ruling as Native American Pipeline Protest Grows

Activists resisting a controversial oil pipeline in a growing protest camp in Cannon Ball, N.D. hope