The pilot of a vintage French air force jet was killed when he crashed into the Mediterranean in front of hundreds of people watching a display to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings.
A show by the Patrouille de France, the aerobatic team of the French air force, was cancelled after the Fouga Magister, a 70-year-old privately owned aircraft, slammed into the sea just off Le Lavandou, a town 12 miles west of Saint Tropez.
The aircraft, produced from the 1940s as the first French jet trainer, was performing manoeuvres offshore parallel to the coast and was in a steeply banked turn when it descended towards the water. Gasps rose from the crowd, who had gathered to commemorate the Nazis being driven out