[cookiecaper]

There's a comment further down this thread that shows four air show related fatalities in the past month.

I would think that going somewhere where you know you will be in close proximity to aircraft performing advanced stunts is one of the riskier places most people decide to go, even if the actual fatality rate is pretty low.

[prof_hobart]

The other ones were deaths of participants rather than spectators though.

If there's very rarely any fatalities, or even injuries, amongst the millions of people who go to airshows every year (the attendance at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is around 800,000 every year for example, and Paris Airshow is around 350,000 people, plus the hundreds if not thousands of airshows like this one in Reno), how is it particularly risky?

[dlss]

So quite safe relative to the risk of driving to the airshow?