The World - News from Dec. 11, 1988
About 15,000 West Germans marched to protest low-altitude military training flights just two days after a U.S. Air Force jet crashed in Remscheid, killing six people. About 90 people also lost their homes in Thursday’s crash. The torchlight parade was organized by left-wing and church groups under the slogan: “Ramstein, Remscheid, who protects us against our protectors? Stop this madness.” The crash of the U.S. Thunderbolt A-10 fighter in the city 40 miles north of Bonn followed the Aug. 28 air show disaster in Ramstein, in which three Italian planes collided, killing 70 people.
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