Crash
The "Green Ramp" is the large north-south parking ramp at the west end of Pope AFB's east-west runway, used by the U.S. Army to stage joint operations with theMid-air collision
Shortly after 1400 hours (local time EST) on Wednesday, March 23, 1994, a two-seat F-16D Fighting Falcon (AF Ser. No. 88-0171, c/n 1D-25, of the 74th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Operations Group) with two pilots (Captains Joseph Jacyno and Scott Salmon) on board was conducting a simulatedGround collision
By the time the C-130 landed, the F-16 had hit Green Ramp heading west. The aircraft struck the ground in an empty parking place between two C-130s with crews on board preparing the aircraft for departure. When the F-16 hit the ground, its momentum carried the wreckage westward through the right wing of a C-141B Starlifter (AF Ser. No. 66-0173 of the 438th Airlift Wing, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey) parked on the ramp. The C-141B crew was preparing the aircraft for joint Army-Air Force operations; however, no Army troops besides the jumpmaster team had yet boarded it. The wreckage of the F-16 punctured the fuel tanks in the C-141's right wing, causing a large fireball, which combined with the F-16 wreckage and continued on a path taking it between Building 900 and the pax shed, directly into the area where the mass of Army paratroopers were sitting and standing. Twenty-three men died and more than eighty were injured;{{cite news, url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=36ksAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8hQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5528%2C3842412 , newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star , agency=Associated Press , title=Some at crash were hit by ammo from fighter jet , date=March 26, 1994 , page=3B one severely burned paratrooper died more than nine months later, on 3 January 1995. Paratroopers at the scene pulled troopers from the flames and the exploding {{convert, 20, mm, in, 1, abbr=on ammunition from the F-16. First upon the scene were vehicles and medics from the Army'sAftermath
See also
* 1965 USAF KC-135 Wichita crash *References
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*{{Cite book, last=Condon-Rall , first=Mary Ellen , title=Disaster on Green Ramp: The Army's Response , year=1996 , url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/green-ramp/popec.htm , publisher=