"Most importantly, there has not been a spectator
fatality at a North American air show involving aircraft since
1952. People – and especially reporters – sometimes
report on fatal accidents and don’t mention this fact. It is
critical that, as an industry, we do what we can to distinguish
between the risk willingly and knowingly assumed by performers and
the spotless safety record that our industry has with
spectators."
Source: From a statement by the International
Council of AirShows, responding to an awful weekend where three
disparate airshow accidents, spanning two continents, took the
lives of three performers in three very different ways... with no
danger, at all, to any spectator.