Air Shows Are a Cancer.

Today -in Ohio- a plane carrying a wing walker crashed at an air show and exploded into flames, killing the pilot and stunt walker.

This is no aisolated incident.

Just in the present year, here is a list (taken from Wikipedia where all accidents since 1910 can be seen) of all the Air Show accidents that have occurred around the world:

• June 22 - At around 12:45 p.m. at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton Ohio, a Pilot and wing walker were killed when the plane crashed.

• May 19 - Murat Öztürk crashed his plane while participating for the weekend’s Adana Air Show organized to celebrate national public holiday in Turkey.

• May 5 - Ladislao Tejedor Romero, an assistant to Spain’s Defense Minister, was severely injured when the Hispano HA-200 Saeta he piloted crashed into a hangar and exploded on impact at the Madrid-Cuatro Vientos Airport in Madrid, Spain. A few hours later he died of his injuries at the local hospital. Three policemen and a woman who went to help the pilot after the crash were injured.

• April 7 - First Lieutenant Rafael Sanchez and Second Lieutenant Carlos Manuel Guerrero crashed an ENAER T-35 Pillán while participating in the Show Aéreo del Caribe in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The aircraft pulled up and rolled inverted, but failed to recover from the dive following the maneuver. The pilot rolled upright, and the aircraft impacted the water, Both pilots died

• March 17 - Roger Stokes who was flying a Supermarine Spitfire Mk 26, an 80% scale home-build replica of the Supermarine Spitfire died when it crashed into a fence between two businesses in a commercial area on Frost Road in the near by suburb of Salisbury, while completing a routine at the Classic Jets Original Parafield Airshow at Parafield Airport in Parafield, South Australia.

• January 23 - Kirby Chambliss crashed his Zivko Edge 540 while participating for the weekend’s Ilopango Air Show in El Salvador. The incident happened when he was executing a formation high alpha pass and crashed at the end of the runway as the engine quit. The airplane is a total loss and Chambliss survived with bumps and bruises.

Since 1910, the world has witnessed more than 200 air show accidents around the world.

So my question is ¿how many more?

If we know that these events are dangerous, ¿why keep on marketing them as family entertainment?