WORLD : 2 Killed as Jet Fighters Collide
A British Tornado warplane flew into a group of eight West German jet fighters today and collided with two of them, killing the two British crewmen and injuring a German pilot, officials said.
Several houses were slightly damaged on the edge of the northern village of Wiesmoor by debris from the Tornado, but there were no civilian casualties, local police said. The accident occurred amid growing complaints among the West German public about the dangers to civilians from NATO training flights over this densely populated country.
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