More than 75 dead in air show crash

An Su-27 fighter jet crashed into a crowd of spectators at an air show today and exploded in a ball of fire, killing at least 78 people and injuring 115 in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, emergency officials said.

The two pilots ejected and survived, the Defence Ministry said, just after the aircraft first touched the ground, slicing through a crowd of onlookers watching the show at the Skniliv air base among thousands who had come to watch the event under clear skies.