BERLIN // At least one person was killed when two small planes crashed at an air show in northern Switzerland on Sunday.
The two planes were part of a formation of three and they crashed just before 11.30am local time after they touched each other in the air, according to Meinrad Stoecklin, a spokesman for police in Basel-Landschaft.
The airshow in the village of Dittingen near Basel was temporarily interrupted as rescue teams raced to the scene of the crash, police said.
It was not immediately clear if there were more injured people. Swiss newspaper Blick reported that one pilot managed to escape by parachute.
Swiss media reported that the two planes were part of the German Grasshopper formation of three planes, but the third plane of the formation was not involved in the crash and landed safely, they reported.
They said one pilot managed to escape by parachute, but it was not clear what happened to the pilot of the second plane.
Daniel Fierchter, a spokesman for the Dittingen airshow, confirmed the crash.
On Saturday, at least seven people died and more than a dozen were injured after a military jet participating in an airshow in the UK crashed into a busy road. The Hawker Hunter fighter jet, which was participating in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton in southern England, hit several vehicles on a nearby road as it crashed.
Witnesses told local TV that the jet appeared to have crashed when it failed to pull out of a loop maneuver.
* Associated Press and Reuters
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