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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.
June 28 – SHAPE International Air Show, Chièvres Air Base, Belgium – After hovering a Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 with a rearward movement, parallel to the public line at about 200 meters of altitude, R.A.F. Flt. Lt. Brian D. Weatherley ended with a nose down attitude that seemed steeper than usual.
Lists of air show accidents and incidents give lists of accidents and incidents at air shows. They include: List of air show accidents and incidents in the 20th century;
A USAF Boeing CT-43 73-1149, call sign IFO 21, of the 76th Airlift Squadron, 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on an official trade mission, crashed on approach to Dubrovnik Airport, Croatia, killing United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 other people. The crash board findings, announced 7 June 1996, blamed the crash ...
July 10 – Pilots Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin were killed in a mid-air collision during a dogfight routine at the Saskatchewan Centennial Air Show in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. At the time of the accident, Franklin was piloting a Waco UPF-7 biplane, and Younkin was piloting a Wolf-Samson biplane, a 1980s replica of the 1948 Pitts Samson .
The crash is one of the deadliest disasters in South Korea’s aviation history. The last time the country suffered a large-scale air disaster was in 1997, when a Korean Airlines plane crashed in ...
Videos taken by spectators show the P-63 fighter collide with the back of the B-17 bomber, causing both of the vintage World War II-era planes to break apart and crash to the ground in a ball of ...
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Germany (2 C, 32 P) ... Ramstein air show disaster; 1988 Remscheid A-10 crash; S. Swiss International Air Lines Flight 850;