My OperaRamstein airshow disaster
Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:44:38 AM
The Ramstein airshow disaster was one of the world's worst airshow disasters. It took place in front of an audience of about 300,000 people on 28 August 1988, in Ramstein, state of Rheinland-Pfalz, West Germany, near the city of Kaiserslautern at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base airshow Flugtag '88. Sixty-seven spectators and three pilots died and 346 spectators sustained serious injuries in the resulting explosion and fire.
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At the same time, one of the damaged aircraft from the heart-forming group crashed into the emergency medical evacuation UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, injuring the pilot, Captain Kim Strader. Captain Strader died weeks later from burns he suffered in the accident, passing away 17 September 1988 at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.
That's the day I was born. Kinda little shocking to see such a familiar date in such scary conxtext.
Gavin Tripp-Sheedygarlingmatthews # Monday, November 17, 2008 7:40:14 PM
merlin!pintavodki # Monday, November 17, 2008 11:09:17 PM
But actually I was always hoping to find something interesting that happened on my birthday. The best thing by far is that the Olympics (in Korea, I think...) started on this day. But this? Uff...