Ukraine mourns as crash pilots blamed

A NATION in mourning, Ukraine yesterday began burying 83 people killed when a fighter jet sliced into a crowd of air show spectators.

The country’s top prosecutor said pilot error and poor planning were to blame for the military’s latest disaster.

As black ribbons flew from flagpoles nationwide to mourn history’s deadliest air show disaster, Prosecutor General Sviatoslav Piskun said the Su-27 had been flying too low before Saturday’s crash in Lviv, and organisers should not have allowed stunts to be performed directly over spectators.