: One pilot was killed and another injured after two small planes collided midair during an air show performance in southern Portugal on Sunday, the air force said.
A Spanish national died, it added. An air force spokeswoman told AFP the victim was the pilot of one of the aircraft involved in the collision. Portugal’s Defence Minister Nuno Melo called it a “tragic accident” and told reporters an investigation would be opened “to determine the exact cause” of the collision.
The air force said the six aircraft belonged to an aerobatic group made of up Spanish and Portuguese pilots named the “Yak Stars”.A video filmed by a spectator and posted on social media showed a formation of six planes in flight, with one of them ascending, apparently touching one of the others and then crashing to the ground in a cloud of smoke.