Editing Sknyliv air show disaster (section)

== Crash ==
More than 10,000 spectators attended the [[air show]], staged to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Ukrainian Air Force's [[14th Air Army|14th Air Corps]].<ref name="CurDi-2002" /> The Su-27 aircraft was flown by two experienced pilots; it entered a [[slow roll (aeronautics)|rolling maneuver]] at 12:52&nbsp;p.m. with a downward trajectory at low altitude. It rolled upright once more and was still descending rapidly when the left wing dropped shortly before it hit the ground, at which point the crew initiated [[ejection seat|ejection]]. The aircraft flattened out initially, before skidding over the ground towards stationary aircraft and striking a glancing blow against the nose of an [[Ilyushin Il-76]], at which point the jet exploded and cartwheeled into the crowd of spectators.{{cn|date=July 2022}}

Both pilots survived with minor injuries, while 77 spectators were killed, including 28 children.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kozyrieva|first1=Tetiana|title=Two Sknyliv boys seven years later|url=http://www.day.kiev.ua/en/article/society/two-sknyliv-boys-seven-years-later|access-date=27 June 2015|work=[[The Day (Kiev)|The Day]]|date=8 September 2009}}</ref> Another 100 were hospitalized for head injuries, burns, and bone fractures.<ref name="CurDi-2002">{{cite journal | title = Deadly Performance. Ukrainian Militarys Prestige Crashes on Lvov Airfield | journal = The Current Digest of the Russian Press | date = August 21, 2002 | first = Svetlana | last = Stepanenko | volume = 54 | issue = 30 | pages = 16| url = http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/13715639  |url-access=subscription  | access-date = 2011-03-24 | quote = Debris from the exploding SU-27 sprayed across the field for a distance of about 100 meters. As of yesterday, 83 people (19 of them children) were dead, and more than 100 were taken to the hospital with head injuries, burns and fractures.}}</ref><ref name="bbc2002">{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2159332.stm | work=BBC News | title=Pilots blamed for Ukraine air disaster | date=29 July 2002}}</ref> Other injuries were less severe and did not require hospitalization. A total of 543 people were injured in the accident.<ref name="CurDi-Convicted">{{cite journal | title = Pilots Convicted for Disaster During Air Show | journal = The Current Digest of the Russian Press | date = July 27, 2005 | first = Roman | last = Kirillov | volume = 56 | issue = 26 | pages = 9–10 | url = http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/13772846 | access-date = 2011-03-24 | quote = While performing an aerobatic maneuver, an SU-27 jet crashed into a crowd of spectators, leaving 77 people dead and another 543 injured. The commander of the plane's crew, Vladimir Toponar, was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison, and copilot Yury Yegorov got eight years | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120330104143/http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/13772846 | archive-date = March 30, 2012 }}</ref> Some bystanders suffered serious mental disorders from what they saw.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 February 2023 |title=Історія авіакатастроф у Львові |trans-title=History of airplane crashes in Lviv |url=https://lviv-future.com.ua/uk/eternal-istoriya-aviakatastrof-u-lvovi |accessdate=13 March 2023 |website=lviv-future.com.ua |language=uk}}</ref>

Following the disaster, the pilots stated that the flight map which they had received differed from the actual layout. On the [[Flight recorder#Cockpit voice recorder|cockpit voice recorder]], one pilot asks, "And where are our spectators?".<ref name="femalevoice">{{Cite web|url=http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/13716213|title=EVXpress – Ukrainian Pilots Failed to Obey Female Voice – The Current Digest of the Russian Press, 2002, No. 31, Vol. 54|website=dlib.eastview.com|access-date=2016-12-16}}</ref> Others have suggested that the pilots were slow to react to automated warnings issued by the [[flight computer]].<ref name="femalevoice" />