On March 23 , 1994 two 23rd Wing aircraft , an F-16 and a C-130 , collided in the base 's landing pattern . After the two crewmembers of the F-16 ejected from their damaged fighter , the unmanned aircraft crashed into an aircraft parking ramp and hit a C-141 transport aircraft parked on the ramp . The resulting fireball and flaming wreckage killed 24 United States Army paratroopers who were waiting nearby to load the transports and injured almost 100 more paratroopers in what is known as the Green Ramp disaster
Green Ramp disaster
Green Ramp disaster
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