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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]
30 May – Wisconsin State Fairgrounds (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) – Sixteen people were injured when a stunt plane crashed while performing a transfer of a person on an airplane to moving automobile via a ladder stunt. The ladder became hooked on the automobiles exhaust pipe and lifted the vehicle's rear end and threw it out of control.
Uganda Airlines Flight 775 was a Boeing 707-338C, registration 5X-UBC, that crashed while attempting to land at Rome-Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy on 17 October 1988. [1] Thirty-three of the 52 occupants on board were killed. [2] [3] [4]
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.
The Italian Air Force said it was investigating whether an aircraft of its acrobatic team struck birds before it crashed near an airport, killing a child on the ground. A 5-year-old girl and her ...
1988 Soviet Air Force Il-76 crash; 1988 Talia Airways Boeing 727 crash; 1988 T&G Aviation DC-7 incident; A. Aeroflot Flight 699; Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1988)
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