The World - News from Sept. 1, 1988
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About 10,000 people, including townspeople, family members, dignitaries and fellow aviators, crowded into a small church in Udine, Italy, for the funeral of the three Italian air force pilots killed in Sunday’s air show disaster in Ramstein, West Germany. The coffins of Lt. Col. Mario Naldini, Lt. Col. Ivo Nutarelli and Capt. Giorgio Alessio were borne in a solemn procession through Udine, which is only 12 miles from the Rivolto air base, headquarters of Italy’s Tricolor Arrows aerobatics team. Meanwhile, U.S. officials raised the death count in the accident to 52, but West German authorities, saying they had mistakenly included a badly burned child as being among the dead, lowered their total to 48.
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