The world’s worst air show disaster happened on August 7, 2002 in Lviv, Ukraine. A Russian-made fighter jet was performing a manoeuvre when it nicked the ground, hit a plane on the tarmac and became a somersaulting fireball that plowed into spectators. Eighty five people were killed.
The pilots, who ejected to safety, were ruled at fault for the crash.
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