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The Green Ramp disaster was a 1994 mid-air collision and subsequent ground collision at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. It killed twenty-four members of the U.S. Army 's 82nd Airborne Division preparing for an airborne training operation.
21 mar 2024 · Former Fayetteville Observer reporters instinctively knew that an aircraft crash at then-Pope Air Force Base 30 years ago meant it was their job to find out what happened.
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22 mar 2024 · – The disastrous accident at then-Pope Air Force Bases’ “Green Ramp” remains one of the most tragic in the history of the U.S. Army. On Mar. 23, 1994, an F-16D Fighting Falcon collided...
Pope AFB is named after First Lieutenant Harley Halbert Pope who was killed on 7 January 1919, when the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny he was flying crashed into the Cape Fear River. After five years, Camp Bragg became a permanent Army post renamed Fort Bragg, now known as Fort Liberty.
22 mar 2018 · A few had no apparent injury but were dead all the same. By 2:12 p.m., firefighters from Pope Air Force Base were at the scene of the crash. Firefighters from Fort Bragg and nearby...
17 mar 2024 · Twenty four 82nd Airborne Division soldiers were killed in the accident near Green Ramp and dozens of others suffered severe burns.