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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 ...
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 ...
August 28 – Ramstein air show disaster (Ramstein, (Germany)) – Three members of Italy's Frecce Tricolori Air Force Display Team flying Aermacchi MB-339's were involved in a mid-air collision. Three pilots, Lt. Col. Ivo Nutarelli, Lt. Col. Mario Naldini and Cap.
The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin.It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsized and oversized loads, including all air-certifiable cargo.
Ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Thursday an allies' group aimed at speeding arms to Ukraine was best kept under U.S ...
En route to Ukraine with paratroopers, Soviet Air Force Ilyushin Il-76MD CCCP-76569, c/n 0033448421, crashes in the Caspian Sea some 1.5 km (0.93 mi) off Nasosnaya Air Base, Azerbaijan following an in-flight fire and resultant wing separation, killing all 57 on board. Five minutes after takeoff, the number one engine failed, caught fire and ...
C-23A over the Rhine Valley. The squadron was reactivated in 1977 to operate the Military Airlift Command (MAC) aerial port at Ramstein Air Base.It serviced transient C-5 Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster transports at Ramstein, loading and unloading cargo and also received airlifted equipment and personnel for United States Army Europe (USAREUR) forces units in Germany.
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