Originally Posted by
Non Linear Gear
...Wasn't that after the mid air that an A 10 was involved in and landed on a house killing German civilians? Late 1988?
NLG, The A-10 crash at Remscheid wasn't a mid-air. A pair from Bentwaters got disoriented in clag at low-level, the Flight lead regained VMC, but the accident pilot came out of the bottom into an apartment block, killing 4 Germans along with himself.
It was notable for a piece of epic BFG HQ policy making when they decided that British Forces Germany would not hold any formal Christmas functions as a measure of respect for the victims. Remember, this was 8th December and in August of the same year that the Frecce Tricolori had just killed 70 people and injured 346 at the Ramstein Airshow. It wasn't the cancelling of Christmas parties that was the issue, it was the fact that only the Brits decided to impose this particular random act of governance among the NATO forces, so it was a fairly lacklustre Christmas in BFG that year, but clearly not for the Americans or the Italians...