Two light planes have crashed at an airshow in Switzerland, killing one of the pilots.



Swiss police said they were two of three C-42b aircraft from Germany, flying in formation. They crashed after they touched in mid-air on Sunday morning.

The automatic rescue system of the first plane failed to activate and the 50-year-old pilot died when his aircraft crashed into a barn in the hillside village of Dittingen, near Basel. Nobody else was injured.



The pilot from the other plane escaped unharmed by parachute; the third plane landed safely.

Police photos showed debris from the two aircraft scattered in the village. The cause of the accident is being investigated, said police in Basel-Landschaft.

It follows the plane crash at Shoreham airshow in West Sussex on Saturday that killed at least eleven people.