The World - News from April 24, 1985
American experts have traced the fatal fire in a Pershing 2 missile three months ago to a freak electrical discharge, not human error, West German government sources said. The accident Jan. 11 at a training site in West Germany killed three American soldiers and injured 16. The sources said static electricity was discharged into the solid-fuel propellant of the unarmed nuclear missile’s first stage.
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