The Stockholm Water Festival () 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

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, 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 supersonic multirole fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace and defence company Saab AB. The Gripen has a delta wing and canard configuration with rela ...

aircraft crashed at the island of Långholmen 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.

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{{Reflist Festivals in Sweden Recurring events established in 1991 Recurring events disestablished in 1999 1991 establishments in Sweden 1999 disestablishments in Sweden Culture in Stockholm August Summer in Sweden 1990s establishments in Stockholm 20th-century disestablishments in Stockholm

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