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The 1988 Remscheid A-10 crash occurred on December 8, 1988, when an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jet of the United States Air Forces in Europe crashed into a residential area in the city of Remscheid, West Germany.
Dec 9, 2008 · The pilot and four residents of Remscheid, a city 40 miles north of Bonn, died when the A-10 jet crashed into a row of 20 houses. One more body was recovered Friday, raising the death toll to five. One person was still missing. Police corrected an earlier report that two more bodies had been found Friday.
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Dec 8, 1988 · UPI Archives. Dec. 8, 1988. U.S. military aircraft crashes West German town. REMSCHEID, West Germany -- An Air Force A-10 jet crashed Thursday, killing an undetermined number of...
Injuries. 50 (all on the ground) Survivors. 0. The 1988 Remscheid A-10 crash occurred on December 8, 1988, when an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jet of the United States Air Force crashed into a residential area in the city of Remscheid, West Germany.
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The 1988 Remscheid A-10 crash occurred on December 8, 1988, when a United States Air Force attack jet, an A-10 Thunderbolt II crashed onto a residential area in the city of Remscheid, West Germany. The aircraft crashed into the upper floor of an apartment complex. In addition to the pilot, five people were killed. Fifty others were injured, including many seriously.
According to press reports the plane was engaged in a low-altitude flight exercise. It belonged to a unit from Bentwaters Air Base but at the time of the accident was stationed at Nörvenich Air Base.
When the number of cancer cases in the vicinity of the accident rose disproportionately in the years after, suspicion rose that the jet, contrary to US statements, may have been loaded with ammunition containing depleted uranium.
In 2002, however, a test of soil samples from 250 meters around the crash site revealed no traces of depleted uranium.
•New York Times: U.S. Plane Crashes Into German City
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Dec 9, 1988 · December 8, 1988 at 7:00 p.m. EST. REMSCHEID, WEST GERMANY, DEC. 9 (FRIDAY) -- A U.S. Air Force A10 Thunderbolt ground attack jet crashed into a. residential neighborhood near Duesseldorf...
