Ramstein Airshow Disaster (1988)

The Ramstein airshow disaster was one of the world's worst airshow disasters. It took place in front of an audience of 300,000 people on August 28, 1988, in Ramstein, state of Rheinland-Pfalz, West Germany, near the city of Kaiserslautern at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base airshow Flugtag '88. Sixty-seven spectators and three pilots died and 346 spectators sustained serious injuries in the resulting explosion and fire.