Accidente Aereo





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Ramstein airshow disaster

The moment of impact
Summary
Date  August 28, 1988
Type  Multiple aircraft collision
Site  Ramstein Air Base, West Germany
Fatal injuries  75 (including 72 on the ground)
Serious injuries  346 (on the ground)
First Aircraft
Aircraft type  Aermacchi MB-339PAN (Callsign - Pony 10)
Operator  Frecce Tricolori, Aeronautica Militare
Crew  1 (Lt. Col. Ivo Nutarelli)
Survivors  0
Second Aircraft
Aircraft type  2 x Aermacchi MB-339PAN (Callsign - Pony 1 & Pony 2)
Operator  Frecce Tricolori, Aeronautica Militare
Passengers  0
Crew  1+1 (Lt. Col. Mario Naldini and Cap. Giorgio Alessio)
Survivors  0

The Ramstein airshow disaster was one of the world's worst airshow disasters. It took place in front of an audience of 300,000 people on August 28, 1988 in Ramstein, county of Kaiserslautern, Germany, at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base airshow Flugtag '88. Sixty-seven spectators and three pilots were killed and 346 spectators were seriously injured in the resulting explosion and fire.