User:Greenshed/sandbox/Dittingen Airshow crash

On 23 August 2015 two small aircraft collided in mid-air during a display at the Dittingen Airshow near Dittingen in Basel-Country, Switzerland. The aircraft involved belonged to the German Grasshopper display team and one pilot's aircraft parachuted safely to the ground but the other, a 50-year old Austrian man, was killed. The aircraft which crashed with fatal consequences had also deployed its parachute but it had failed to open. The aircraft plummeted to the ground and hit a barn in the village of Dittingen. The pilot was thought to have been killed on impact and no fatalities were reported among the people in the village. All the aircraft involved were Ikarus C42 microlights.