What begins as a peaceful air show ends in disaster when three planes collide above Ramstein Germany then slam into the runway. It is Sunday, 28 August 1988 during the Flugtag '88 airshow at the United States' Ramstein Air Base near ...See moreWhat begins as a peaceful air show ends in disaster when three planes collide above Ramstein Germany then slam into the runway. It is Sunday, 28 August 1988 during the Flugtag '88 airshow at the United States' Ramstein Air Base near Kaiserslautern, West Germany. There were 70 fatalities (67 spectators and 3 pilots); 346 spectators sustained serious injuries in the resulting explosion and fire, and hundreds more had minor injuries. Written by
Ulf Kjell Gür
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