Citation

Martin TE. J. R. Army Med. Corps 1990; 136(1): 19-26.

Affiliation

RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, Farnborough, Hants.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, UK Royal Army Medical Corps)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2319499

Abstract

In August 1988 an aircraft of the Italian aerobatic display team fell into the spectator enclosure at the Ramstein Airshow, causing over 500 casualties. The survivors were triaged, treated and evacuated from Ramstein within 96 minutes. The speed and efficiency of this evacuation was a result of prior planning, thorough training, medical reinforcement, co-operation with other agencies and the availability of an abundance of vehicles for both air and road evacuation. Not suprisingly, though, problems did occur, especially with communications, casualty identification and documentation.

Language: en