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The Green Ramp disaster was a 1994 mid-air collision and subsequent ground collision at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. It killed twenty-four members of the U.S. Army 's 82nd Airborne Division preparing for an airborne training operation.
On March 23, 1994, then-Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base saw a mid-air collision that killed 24 paratroopers on the ground. Green Ramp memories: How soldiers and survivors recalled deadly 1994 ...
It would take more than a year before reports would tell what happened on March 23, 1994.
A mid-air collision between a Lockheed C-130 Hercules and a General Dynamics F-16D Fighting Falcon caused a ground crash at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. The F-16 hit and destroyed a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter parked on the tarmac, and flaming wreckage careened into paratroopers preparing for a practice drop, killing 24 and injuring many ...
The F-16D skidded into a C-141B Starlifter, AF Ser No. 66-0173, at the Green Ramp, Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, where paratroopers from adjacent Fort Bragg were preparing for a drop mission. The ensuing explosion sent debris raining down on soldiers and airmen waiting to board the C-141.
Television news reporter Greg Barnes, who covered community fundraisers, car crashes and hurricanes in southeastern North Carolina for WTVD with equal enthusiasm for nearly 35 years, died ...
Pope Air Force Base (www.pope.af.mil) at the Wayback Machine (archived 26 October 2010) Mary Ellen Condon-Rall: Disaster on Green Ramp: The Army's Response Archived 12 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine, United States Army Center of Military History, Washington 1996.
Air traffic controller audio captured operators warning the military helicopter that it was getting close to American Airlines Flight 5342 and directing it to pass behind the passenger plane ...