The Stockholm Water Festival ( sv, Stockholms vattenfestival) was an annual

street festival A street fair celebrates the character of a neighborhood. As its name suggests, it is typically held on the main street of a neighborhood. The principal component of street fairs are booths used to sell goods (particularly food) or convey informa ...

held in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, Sweden, in August from 1991 to 1999. The festival featured many activities in central Stockholm, but was eventually cancelled after the 1999 festival due to lack of funds. During the Stockholm Water Festival of 1993, a

JAS 39 Gripen The Saab JAS 39 Gripen (; English: ''griffin'') is a light single-engine multirole fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab AB. The Gripen has a delta wing and canard configuration with relaxed stabilit ...

aircraft crashed at the island of

Långholmen Långholmen is an island between two other islands, Södermalm and Kungsholmen, in central Stockholm, Sweden. This island can be reached via two bridges; Pålsundsbron in the east and Långholmsbron in the west. Långholmen is a popular sp ...

in central Stockholm during a display of the new aircraft. Despite the crash occurring near thousands of spectators, only one person on the ground was injured.A woman was hospitalized for three weeks for burns
"Coping with a Credibility Crisis: The Stockholm JAS Fighter Crash of 1993"
, p. 27. Swedish National Defence College. Retrieved 23 January 2012.

References

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