A small propeller-driven plane crashed during an air show in central Hungary, killing two people and seriously injuring three people on the ground, police said.
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The fatal accident at the Borgond air show in Fejer county happened at about 3.20pm 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 hospitalised, 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 organisers 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 organised manner," the police statement read.
Andras 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.
Australian Associated Press
