Aircraft crash videos

The accident took place over the airport Radom during Airshow, on September 24th, 2022. Two Zlin Z-526 were performing aerobatic maneuvers when they collided in mid-air. Both pilots died from the impact. The planes were completely destroyed.

Dallas, USA – November 12th, 2022 - A Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63F Kingcobra collided in mid-air during a fly-by at the Wings Over Dallas Airshow at Dallas Executive Airport, Texas, USA.
The P-63F Kingcobra crossed the B-17 from behind and impacted the aircraft, shearing off the rear fuselage and tail section. Both aircraft broke up and crashed. They were destroyed. The occupants of both aircraft - five on the B-17 and the pilot of the P-63 – were killed.
The Boeing B-17 is one of the most famous bomber from World War II. The P-63F is an American fighter from World War II.

The Just Superstol aircraft approaches at a very low speed, trying to land on a minimum distance. But the speed is too low, and the right wing stalls. The plane crashed on the runway. Lucky pilot walks away. This happened in Australia in 2015.

July 10th 2011, Duxford airshow, United Kingdom - A P51 Mustang collided with a Douglas AD-4NA Skyraider during an airshow. The Mustang plummeted into an empty field moments after the pilot bailed out. He suffered minor injuries. The SkyRaider lost a large chunk of its wing tip which fell to the ground. It went into a bit of a dive then sorted itself out, and landed safely with damage to its right wing. Nobody else was hurt.

Mid-Air collision of two aircraft that were performing aerobatics display along the coastline at Alba Adriatica, Italy, on May 31st 2015. One aircraft, a Van's RV-8, lost a wing and crashed into the sea, killing the pilot. The pilot of the other aircraft, a Van's RV-7, managed to make a forced landing on the shoreline, causing the airplane to flip upside down. The pilot survived.
The Van’s Aircraft RV-7 / RV-8 are two-seat, single-engine, low-wing homebuilt airplanes sold in kit form by Van's Aircraft, and designed for aerobatics.

Shoreham-by-Sea, England – 22nd August 2015 – The Hawker Hunter T7 crashed during a display at the Shoreham Airshow. The vintage jet aircraft failed to complete an inside loop aerobatic manoeuvre due to a pilot error : the pilot failed to recognise that the aircraft was too low to perform the loop. The plane crashed in a fireball on the A27 trunk road, smashing into vehicles and pedestrians. 11 people on the ground were killed, and 16 others were injured. 8 vehicles were destroyed in the crash. The pilot survived the crash but was seriously injured.
Investigation report has concluded that the aircraft did not achieve sufficient height at the apex of the accident manoeuvre to complete it before impacting the ground, because the combination of low entry speed and low engine thrust in the upward half of the manoeuvre was insufficient. The pilot failed to carry out an escape manoeuvre.

This pilot nearly puts his plane in the Detroit River at the Red Bull Air Race Championships qualifying round in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

This British Aerospace Nimrod crashed on September 2nd 1995 during a display at the Canadian International Air Show (CIAS) at Toronto. All 7 crewmembers perished.
A combination of the low airspeed and the G-loading led the aircraft to stall, whereupon the port wing dropped to 85° of bank and the nose dropped to 18° below the horizon. Full starboard aileron and full engine power were applied in an attempt to recover the aircraft but, by this stage, there was insufficient height to recover and the aircraft hit the water. The Inquiry determined that the captain made an error of judgement in modifying one of the display manoeuvres to the extent that he stalled the aircraft at a height and attitude from which recovery was impossible.

This Extra 300 aerobatic plane crashed during an airshow in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 11th March 2007. The pilot (Julio Benvenuto) was killed.

Grossostheim, Germany, july 12th 2009 - The Pitts S-1 pulled up into the vertical and then pushed over into a four turn spin to the left. Although the pilot recovered the aircraft after four turns, there was insufficient height available to safely affect the recovery pull out. During the recovery pull-out, the aircraft undercarriage struck a car which was parked on a road near the airfield; the impact of the collision tore the undercarriage off the aircraft as it crashed inverted in a nearby field.
Amazingly, the three people who were in the car at the moment of impact, suffered scratches and bruises, and the pilot suffered only minor injuries

This P-51 Mustang crashed right next to the crowd at the Reno, Nevada, USA airshow, killing its pilot and ten people on the ground, and also injuring 69 others, including 16 severely. While racing, the P51 lost its left trim tab. This resulted in a sudden climb of the aircraft with a vertical acceleration of 17g which rang the pilot. Unconscious, the pilot was no longer able to control his plane. This ended terribly bad: The P-51 nose dived into the crowd and smashed almost vertically.

Red arrows accident – August 20th 2011 – The Red Arrows (RAF display team) had finished their display over the seafront in Bournemouth (England) and just started heading back to their base when one of the nine Hawk T1 aircraft dramatically lost altitude and smashed into a field. The plane came to a standstill with its nose in the River Stour near the village of Throop. The pilot has been killed.
This footage shows the plane losing altitude and disappearing below the horizon.