UK Police on Monday said the death toll from the crash of a plane onto a highway may rise from the current “highly likely” count of 11, CNN reported on Monday, August 24th.
“However, we do not expect that figure to be greater than 20, probably fewer,” said Assistant Chief Constable Steve Barry of Sussex Police.
The plane crashed Saturday at an air show in southeastern England. At least 14 other people were injured.
Authorities said the pilot — who was, against all odds, pulled from the wreckage alive — is in a coma.
“Andrew Hill remains in critical condition,” police said in a statement released on behalf of Hill’s family. “He has multiple injuries and is in a medically induced coma.”
Sussex police announced at a news conference Sunday that it was “highly likely” 11 people had been killed.
The identification process is requiring the help of the victims’ next of kin.
Authorities resumed the search for more possible victims two days after the military jet plunged from the sky and crashed onto the busy highway.
Meanwhile, people raised questions about whether an aerobatics show should have been held over a highway. The A27, running along parts of England’s south coast, parallel to the English Channel, is among Britain’s busiest.
Sue Grimstone, from Brighton, told the Daily Telegraph newspaper that the death of her son, Matthew, who was 23, had been “a waste.”
“Air shows should be over the sea,” she said. “It should never have been over that road.” All of those known to have died were on the A27.
Some people took to social media in an attempt to find missing loved ones.