European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday december 9, 1988 a Rekve worker helps resident through the nibble alter an air Force Jet crashed in Reinscheld West Germany. Crash from Page 1 Mandr went to re Mscheid to oversee the initial investigation of the crash of the Sisi Tae fighter Wing Jet. Safe officials we police cordoned Oft the area surrounding the crash site which bordered a shopping District in the Western part of the City said Bernd Grosskamp a Remscheid police spokesman Rescue units from the red Cross focal fire and police departments and the German army responded to the disaster which left Many Home. Less it s one of the worst sights i be Ever seen grass Kam said. Uwe Protzmann a Remscheid insurance Salesman was in his living room when he heard a loud noise and saw a Shadow pass Over his House. When he looked out his window Protzmann saw a great red Flash then a Green Flash and then a second later a great  hearing horrible erics outside Proi Roann ran out of his House toward the crash site but saw no one. Through  smoke he saw the plane embedded in the multifamily residence and a Parachute hanging in a tree. Then 1 heard a second explosion and saw a great flame. I jumped behind a House because i was very afraid Protzmann told the stars and stripes Protzmann said a number of foreigners possibly turks and greeks lived in a building destroyed by the plane s Impact. Vol was just like the second world War Prole Man said. The Jet assigned to Raf bunt Waters in England was deployed with the Wing s Del 4 at nor Venith a West Ger Man air Force base near Cologne. Eighteen a los were at no Venich thursday for a training exercise that began monday said it. Mike Caldwel a Safe spokesman. West German defense authorities said thursday the plane was in route to practice Low level flying near Siegn a Community near Remscheid. The Thunderbolt is a in in engine close air support Jet designed to provide air cover for ground forces. Widely called the tank killer or the wart hog the plane entered the air forces inventory in 1976. It can carry a wide assortment of munitions including bombs or Malenck missiles a 30mm, seven barrel Catling gun is mounted in the. Plane s nose. At the time of the crash the plane carried 1,000 rounds of exercise ammunition which contains a pro Pellant charge with an inert projectile. The Structure of the aircraft should protect the training ammunition from Aoingan serious damage Saidou Gmoore . Lilli reichold who lives near the crash site said exploding ammunition could still be heard late Thure Day afternoon. ,.,. " heard they were taking the wounded and the evacuated persons to a nearby schoolhouse Reich hold said. The worst thing is that All those people have become homeless just before Christmas Hans Karl Willums editor of the local paper said residents reported that the carnage was worse than anything they saw during the War. Six or seven houses Are in flames human limbs Are draped in the Trees and on rooftops he said. The last serious m mishap in Safe involving an a quake from Page 1 destruction in Georgia and the Azerbaijan Republic in the Northern caucasus. Tent cities for evacuees were set up throughout Northwestern Armenia which was hardest int. Military surgeons arc carrying out a series of difficult operations including on children in held conditions army Gen. Vladimir Arkhipova told Tass. The Agency said a red Cross plane brought Relief supplies including 70,000 blood transfusion kits to Armenia. The earthquake which struck at mid Oming wiped out Spitak a town of 16.000 about 55 Miles Northwest or the armenian capita of Yerevan the government newspaper Izvestia said. It said just one of the town s eight schools remained standing. The . Geological Survey said the quake measured 6.9 on the Richcr scats. State television showed dim of crumbled buildings in Spitak and Kiro Vakan Armenia s third largest City. In one shot a Man put his bands Over his head in grief As he stood in the rubble of a collapsed building. Practically All apartment buildings of nine floors or higher Are destroyed he official news paper Komsomol Kayu pravda said. There is significant damage in five Story apartment build Ings. Only individual one Story and two three Story Homes of old construction remain  Komsomol Skaya pravda reported from Leni Nakan a City of 250,000 about 10 Miles from the epicentre that preliminary reports indicated tens of thousands of people became victims of the earthquake.1 10 look place on feb. 29,1984, near Raf cot Withall in England when an a-10 collided with a civilian Cessna 150, killing the civilian student Pilot. An air Force spokesman in Washington said the a 10 is one of the safest planes in the service s inventory. In the just concluded fiscal year the plane had an Acci Dent rate ofl.37 per 100,000 flying hours he said. Last week the West German government asked nato to consider reducing the amount of Low level flying done within the country citing citizens opposition to the exercises. On March 31, a Halm a f-16 crashed in Forst West Germany i Ling the Pilot and e resident on the ground and damaging live houses. Seventy people were killed and hundreds were injured when three italian air Force jets collided at the Ramstein air show. West German defense minister Rupert Schotz Cut Short a trip to Washington to return to Germany after learning of the disaster. He was to tour the crash area Friday with Richard Bun . Ambassador to Ger. Many. "  to tin Imatt Pilitt Willied puns fld Hindy Mccush Dir Minim. Will a Wirty Chuck Vanoi in we Englon and Ona 0-on to Justice Brennan enters Hospital with pneumonia Washington a supreme court jus Tice William j. Brennan was hospitalized thurs Day suffering from pneumonia. Brennan 82, was taken to the belch sea naval medical Center in suburban Maryland in the Early afternoon after visiting a doctor at the . Capitol court spokeswoman Toni House said. Nato crash loss put at 1 to plys jets in year Brussels Belgium a nato air forces lost More than too Jet fighters in air crashes in the 12-month period. That ended oct. 31, Jane s defence weekly reported in its current Issue. The respected London based weekly said inc aircraft had a value of More than is billion and represented the equivalent of the entire combat strength of the Royal norwegian air  .-./. It also said that since oct. 31, the United states has written off a further s560 million Worth of combat aircraft with the crash of two bib strategic. Bombers.". Nato officials had no comment on the report.". One official who asked not to be named said the nato members do not report the loss of aircraft since we Are not in the business of Day to Day track ing of each air crash. Jane a defence weekly a sub scrap. Lion Only publication said the nato air forces lost 97 combat planes in the 12 month period ending oct. 31. No figures were available from tur key it added though it is reasonable to assume that tur Kisti air Force losses would have taken the figures beyond the 100  the weekly said if support aircraft were included nato lost 128 air planes during the fiscal year. It said the . Air Force lost 40 com Bat planes including 20 f-l6s, seven f 4s and five a-7s. France was second with is Jet fighters lost in accidents including ii mirages and Britain came third with the loss of nine Jet fighters including four Tornado and three harriers .-j./. A Jane s reported these losses for the other nato members. ". Greece six West Germany five Italy four Belgium. Canada Portugal and Spain three each and the Netherlands Norway and Denmark two  members Luxembourg and ice land have no air forces. The f-16, in service with five nato air forces and ordered by another two is nato s most numerous fighter and rep-., resents More than one Quarter of the fighters lost Jane s defence weekly said. In addition to the 20 . F-16s that crashed the weekly said the danish dutch and norwegian air forces each lost two f 16s in the fiscal year. The Cost of air crashes to nato Janes defence weekly said is illustrated by a recent United kingdom ministry of defense order for 41 additional Tornado to cover Royal air Force Attri Tion losses. The Cost of the Purchase to tales s 1.37 billion