This shocking video shows a stunt plane colliding into a street in central Argentina, before hitting a woman and her child. The pilot and both pedestrians were left seriously injured.
Yésica Acuña, 27, and three-year-old Isabella Santiago were walking back to their home and stopped to watch two stunt jets perform maneuvers in the mountainous village of Villa General Belgrano on Saturday night.
According to Infobae the 35-year-old pilot Fernando Endrigo was performing an acrobatic display with a second jet in part of Rodrigo Cerioni’s wedding celebrations. Cerioni is a well known stunt pilot.
Endrigo was seen repositioning the Rans S9 Chaos aircraft in a stunt that saw him increase the altitude. Then he did an inside loop, while the other plane did the same thing.
Endrigo seemed to lose control of his plane as it sank straight down. The stunt plane hit a tree before ramming into Acuña and Santiago.
Fernando Endrigo is tended to after the Rans S9 Chaos he was piloting crashed while he was performing an acrobatic stunt in Villa General Belgrano, Argentina, on Saturday
Fernando Endrigo pilots a stunt plane before it crashes to the street and hits a 27-year old woman and her 3-year-old daughter.
Firefighters cut the plane open to remove Endrigo.
Endrigo, Acuña and Santiago were initially rushed to Eva Perón Hospital in Santa Rosa de Calamuchuta, and then transferred to other medical facilities in Córdoba.
Endrigo sustained ‘blunt head trauma, abdominal trauma and left ankle fractures’. He is in critical condition while being cared for at Private University Hospital of Córdoba.
After pilot’s stunt-plane crashed while performing an aerial stunt for a wedding, the Villa General Belgrano Fire Department was forced to trim a section off the aircraft.
Argentine newspaper La Voz reported that Transportation Safety Board is looking into what caused Saturday’s stunt plane crash in the mountainous village of Villa General Belgrano
Acuña underwent emergency surgery for fractures to the femur and pelvic area at Misericordia Hospital, where she is in intensive care.
Santiago suffered an abdomen and hip injury, and is in stable condition at Córdoba Children’s Hospital.
La Voz newspaper reported that the Transportation Safety Board is investigating what caused the accident.