The World - News from Aug. 11, 1988

Two Royal Air Force Tornado jet fighters collided while on unrelated low-level night training flights over northwest England, killing three British airmen and one West German trainee navigator, the Defense Ministry said in London. Rescue workers recovered the bodies from wreckage scattered over the Cumbrian hills. The $30-million fighters collided over the sparsely populated area near the village of Milburn, 240 miles from the capital. One fighter was flying in a twin formation with another jet, not involved in the accident, and the other was flying alone, officials said. The area is regularly used for low-level training flights.