Russian fighter jet crashes at Michigan air show; video shows pilot, backseater eject

A helicopter and a gyrocopter collided in midair, leaving two dead and two injured. Two others died earlier in the day when a single-engine plane went into nearby Lake Winnebago.

A MiG-23 aircraft is seen in the air moments before crashing during the Thunder over Michigan air show at the Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti on Sunday. Two people reportedly ejected from the aircraft prior to the crash. On Sunday, witnesses − including people who were not at the air show but close enough to see it − posted a video of the crash to social media. They described a loud boom and then plumes of dark smoke rising south of the airport.The two-day show was celebrating its 25th anniversary, and Sunday was the last day.Matthew Gerick, who was at the show, watched the two people eject, and then the plane zoom to the ground.

"Like, did we just watch that happen?" he told the Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network, after the plane went down. "I was sitting over on Beck Road watching the plane fly out toward 94 when it kept getting lower and lower. Then my wife and I saw the black smoke so we drove down to see the crash on 94 and it landed right next to the apartment building."

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