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The Ramstein air show disaster occurred on Sunday, 28 August 1988 during the Flugtag '88 airshow at USAF Ramstein Air Base near Kaiserslautern, West Germany. Three aircraft of the Italian Air Force display team collided during their display, crashing to the ground in front of a crowd of about 300,000 people. There were 70 fatalities (67 ...
Francesco Cossiga, the Prime Minister of Italy at the time, attributed the crash to the accidental shooting down by a French missile during a dogfight between Libyan and French fighter jets. In September 2023, former Italian prime minister Giuliano Amato declared that the accident was "part of a plan to shoot down the airplane of Gaddafi". [1] [2]
6 May.On an episode of the magazine Telefono giallo, hosted by Corrado Augias, about the Itavia flight 870, an airman in service in Marsala on the day of the crash (whose identity has never been ascertained), phones on air and declares to have seen the radar tracks of the event, before they were hidden by the Italian Air Force.
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The new Peacock/Sky TV series is based on the real-life Pan Am Flight 103 that crashed Dec. 21, 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The plane exploded just 38 minutes after take-off and killed all 259 ...
March 23 – Jacksonville, Florida – Stunt woman Mabel Cody was injured after she fell from an airplane while attempting to transfer to the plane from a speeding automobile. [325] March 3 – San Antonio, Texas – Pilot Bertha Horchem was killed when her plane crashed while performing with an air circus group in front of 3,000 spectators.
Aug. 31, 1988: Crews remove one of the first victims of the Delta 1141 crash from the plane’s rear, which had been on fire. Twelve passengers and two flight attendants died in the disaster at ...
29 May – World's first Pendolino train to enter regular high-speed service between Milan and Rome. [3]28 August – In an air show at the US Ramstein Air Base in Germany, three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending a fireball into the ground.