I was flying an ambulance mission that night. Returning to Tempelhof Air Base in Berlin I asked the controller for a visual approach and got it as the weather was reasonable for Berlin in the fall. This allowed us to circle over East Berlin and then onto final for the base runway.
Ahead was the Berlin Wall and all of a sudden we realized that the lights around Check Point Charlie were much brighter than normal, and lots more activity at the crossing than normal. We asked the control tower what in the world was going on and they were the first to inform us that the Berlin Wall had fallen.
We secured the patient, got the plane put to bed and went out with everyone else and got drunk. History was being made!
Ramp as it looked that night:
What you saw months afterwards, the East German and Russian soldiers selling their equipment. An AK47 went for $200...
Having a drink with the helo pilot afterwards, then heading home to crash.
