At a recent airshow in Europe.

But at least the pilot made it out.

Ack!! Was it because of collision? What I can tell of the markings is that the plane looks like it was used in an airshow. Judging from the pic, I think the pilot is quite away from danger. He only needs to eject.

I believe that actually happened in the mid 90's and yes it was caused by a mid-air collision.

This is what happened. One of the Migs got lost in a cloud & came down straight on top of the other. Really scary, but both the pilots steered their planes clear of the crowd & then ejected. Nobody was hurt.

So much for "close formation flying" much like the freeway traffic here. Good that pilots are okay.

One of the that had ejected had his canopy 1/4 to 1/2 way open by the time he hit the ground; he also ejected sideways as the plane was plumeting to the ground.

The pilot that was hit later slugged the pilot that did the hitting. Discovery WIngs, back when it was just "Wings" program on the Discovery Channel, featured that accident and showed the guys involved.

That was one of the contributors to the old joke about if you want a close up view of a Russian aircraft, just go to Paris airshow.

IIRC,

this crash was also the one that figured in a special, either in Discovery or National Geographic about the Russian ejection seats, and that they are (far) superior to anything the Western countries have...

Also, the accident itself was a classic Murphy's law case. Besides the fact the pilots lost eachother in the clouds, they both looked the wrong way looking for eachother. Their third man radio (for their groundcoordinator) did not work due to some f*** disconnecting the powercable or battry going dead. Their intercom was interfered with by the group for the next display taking of, and so was air-traffic control.

Whoa.
If I ever thought that I was having a bad day, I will read this thread.

I remember this crash it happened in 1993 at the RIAT at Fairford. It was the day before I was due to go. The pilots simple go to close together and bang the rest as they say is history. Luckily both of them survived.

I did a tour at RAF Fairford in '98 and they were still talkin about this...heh. MiG-29's, and yes...they have FAR better ejection seats than U.S. ASUS II's.....but that kinda works out since most countries who fly soviet aircraft tend to crash em alot....