Pilot killed in eastern Iowa air show crash
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A plane that was part of an air show in eastern Iowa has crashed, and authorities say the pilot was killed.
The Quad-Cities Times reports that the Soviet-era retired military jet was performing with the Quad-City Air Show in Davenport. Authorities say the jet was flying in formation with other jets when it failed to pull out of a 45-degree bank and crashed into a field north of Interstate 80 around 1:25 p.m. Saturday.
Nobody on the ground was hurt, but crowds watching the show saw the plane go down and erupt in flames.
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Davenport police and federal investigators planned to comb the field Saturday for widely-scattered wreckage from the plane.
Assistant Davenport Police Chief Don Schaeffer did not identify the pilot, but said he was not from Davenport.