1982 Mannheim, Germany, Air Show Disaster, Heli Exploded

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1982 Mannheim, Germany, Air Show Disaster, Heli Exploded

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The worst* death toll was in September 1982, when an American Chinook helicopter exploded during an air show in Mannheim, killing 46 people, including Britons, Frenchmen and West Germans.
I am astounded that a catastrophe of this magnitude hasn't come to my attention before, with all the searches I've made in this particular field.

Does anyone have any details to add, please do.

* = this quote appeared in an article about the 1988 Ramstein tragedy.
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Ceremony held on the 25th anniversary of the crash:

http://www.mannheim.de/io2/browse/Webse ... er_de.xdoc
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Wreck pic:

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Click to enlarge, attic find, 3 decades worth of newspapers up there, if lightning strikes, I'm fucked. God's on my side, though (I am He), so I am in the clear.
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And God looks down with a big grin on his face... :twisted:
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