A midair collision on Sunday afternoon killed a pilot during an airshow in the village of Dittingen in Switzerland.

According to a Wikinews report, the crash occurred as three Ikarus C42 planes from the German Grasshopper display team flew together in formation. Two collided and crashed, with one pilot ejecting and parachuting to safety and the other remaining on board and being killed. The third plane was not directly involved and landed successfully.

The northern Swiss village is near Basel. Basel-Landschaft police spokesman Meinrad Stoecklin put the time of the accident at 11:30a.m. The airshow was first halted as rescuers arrived, then cancelled altogether. It is unclear if there are any additional injuries.

Authorities have closed down access to the scene. The killed pilot’s plane struck a barn. The display team reportedly was using amateur pilots.

It is the third deadly European airshow crash in four days. On Thursday two planes carrying parachutists collided and crashed in West Slovakia. At least seven were killed. They had been practising for an airshow due to be held this weekend. Yesterday a vintage warplane crashed onto a busy road by Shoreham in England. Seven are confirmed dead, with the pilot critical and police continuing to search the scene for more bodies.

Following is the full report from the Shoreham accident from our international news wire partner, Agencia EFE:

London, Aug 22 (EFE).– Seven people died Saturday when a vintage fighter plane taking part in the Shoreham Airshow in West Sussex, England, went out of control and crashed into several cars on a busy highway, emergency management services said.

The South East Coast Ambulance Service confirmed that the victims died instantly at the moment of the crash, and that at least 12 others were injured.

Two men were taken to hospital, one in critical condition and another with slight injuries, while another 10 people were treated at the scene of the crash, a spokesperson for the Royal Sussex County Hospital said.

The pilot, who was flying a Hawker Hunter jet fighter, was rescued from the wreckage of the burning plane and is apparently recovering at a medical center.

The accident occurred at 1:30 p.m. on the A27 Motorway that runs beside an airport near the city of Brighton, and the road has been closed to traffic in both directions.

The fighter crashed when it failed to pull out of a loop maneuver and hit the motorway in a ball of fire that sent up a huge cloud of black smoke, to the alarm of the airshow audience.

One of the witnesses, Stephen Jones, said the plane went into a loop but couldn’t pull out of it, and “flew straight into the ground either on or very close to the A27,” while other onlookers were told by security officers that they would have to spend “several hours” in the area before they could leave, according to local media.

The pilot had “gone up into a loop and as he was coming out of the loop I just thought, you’re too low, you’re too low, pull up,” Jones said.

Ailish Southall, who was driving along the motorway with her two children, said “we were waiting for it (the plane) to go back up and it didn’t – it seemed to kind of split in two.”

“There were huge amounts of fire and we ran from the car to kind of avoid the debris because we were about 15 meters (50 feet) away, we were just across the road from where the accident happened,” she said.

A spokesperson for the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, or AAIB, said that a team is at the scene of the accident trying to determine what caused the crash.

The Hawker Hunter was one of the jet fighters used by Britain’s Royal Air Force in the 1950s and early 1960s. EFE