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September 3rd, 2007

No Second Chance

Posted by: David Viggers

When two planes from the “Zelazny” display team collided killing both pilots at a weekend airshow over Radom in Poland, photographer Kacper Pempel nailed the full horror of the crash in a sequence which takes us from the moment three three planes converge to the violence of the impact and the aftermath as debris and a few recognisable components seem to hang in the sky and then rain down like confetti around the crippled remains of one of the aircraft.

Crash 1

Crash 2

Crash 3

Crash 4

Crash 5

Crash 6

Hats off to Kacpar for keeping his cool in horrifying circumstances.