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- This article is about the town in Germany. See Rammstein for the band with similar name.
Ramstein-Miesenbach is a town and a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated near the Pfälzer Wald, approx. 5 km north of Landstuhl, and 15 km west of Kaiserslautern.
Ramstein-Miesenbach is also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Ramstein-Miesenbach, which consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"):
- Hütschenhausen
- Kottweiler-Schwanden
- Niedermohr
- Ramstein-Miesenbach
- Steinwenden
These villages have a total population of around 19,000 individuals, a significant portion of which are Americans working at the nearby Ramstein Air Base, a United States military airfield. In the Ramstein airshow disaster of 1988, 70 people died at this airbase after an Aermacchi 339 trainer aircraft of the Italian aerobatic team, the Frecce Tricolori collided with the tail of another similar aircraft and careered onwards into spectators during an airshow. It has been reported that the pressure setting on the aircraft had been incorrectly input so that the altimeter gave an inaccurate reading to the pilot flying towards the crowd-line.
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