Editing Depleted uranium (section)

===Remscheid, Germany===
{{Main articles|1988 Remscheid A-10 crash}}
On 8 December 1988, an [[A-10 Thunderbolt II]] attack jet of the [[United States Air Force]] crashed onto a residential area in the city of [[Remscheid]], [[West Germany]]. The aircraft crashed into the upper floor of an apartment complex. In addition to the pilot, five people were killed. Fifty others were injured, many of them seriously. When the number of cancer cases in the vicinity of the accident rose disproportionately in the years after, suspicion rose that the depleted uranium ballast in the jet may have been the cause.<ref name=Hindin/>

This was denied by the US military. However, 70 tons of top soil from the accident scene was removed and taken away to a depot.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Markmeyer, B.|date=1989-10-13|title=Remscheid-Absturz mit Folgen|language=de|pages=1–2|work=Die Tageszeitung: taz|url=https://taz.de/!1794979/|access-date=2021-01-14|issn=0931-9085}}</ref> Film material taken during the top-soil removal show radiation warning signs.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Remscheid: Starb Kind wegen Uranverseuchung? |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/remscheid-starb-kind-wegen-uranverseuchung-a-112293.html|access-date=2021-01-14|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=13 January 2001|language=de}}</ref> 120 residents and rescue workers reported skin diseases. Medical diagnosis concluded that these symptoms related to toxic irritative dermatitis.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Zeitung|first=Westdeutsche|date=2008-12-08|title=Flugzeugabsturz in Remscheid 1988: Der Schock sitzt immer noch tief|url=https://www.wz.de/panorama/flugzeugabsturz-in-remscheid-1988-der-schock-sitzt-immer-noch-tief_aid-31569121|access-date=2021-01-14|website=Westdeutsche Zeitung|language=de}}</ref>