The World - News from Feb. 17, 1989
The U.S. Air Force canceled all its air shows in West Germany for 1989, six months after the Ramstein Air Base crash that killed 70 people and injured hundreds, a military spokesman at the base said. Three Italian stunt jets collided in flight over Ramstein on Aug. 28, and one of the flaming planes plowed into a crowd of spectators. That crash, and a series of allied training flight crashes in West Germany last year that killed more than 100 people, caused a public outcry and demands for a stop to low-level military flights.
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