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On 20 June 2021, the AAII was notified of an air accident of the North American T-28B Trojan aircraft in the vicinity of the village Jickovice, District Písek. Two aircraft were executing a group overflight from the Antidotum AirShow 2021 from EPLS (Leszno / Strzyzewice – Poland) to LOWS (Salzburg / W. A. Mozart – Austria). The pilot of North American T-28B Trojan, flying behind the lead aircraft North American B-25J Mitchell, performed a barrel roll aerobatic element at approximately 1800 ft ALT REG QNH 1008 hPa. While recovering from a descent, the aircraft crashed into the trunks of mature trees in the low-relief terrain in a forest belt and the aircraft wreckage landed on the edge of the forest, where it caught fire. The pilot died and the passenger was seriously injured.


