Das Starfighter-Desaster
Almost every third out of 916 F-104 Starfighter jets of the German Luftwaffe crashed, killing 116 pilots. The aircraft that had been in service since 1959 soon got the nickname 'widowmaker' and was overshadowed by political corruption.
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Der
Recaps the 'Spiegel affair' amid the unfolding Cuban missile crisis, that became one of the biggest media scandals in Germany and resulted in a political earthquake.
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