page_title: Ramstein air show disaster
section_title: References in popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Ramstein air show disaster / References in popular culture
caption_attribution_description: Memorial for the victims of the Ramstein airshow disaster. The memorial stone is located next to the driveway to Ramstein Air Base. Photography by Frank Weiler (Wikiped) 21.07.2006
context_page_description: The Ramstein air show disaster occurred on Sunday, 28 August 1988 during the Flugtag '88 airshow at the United States' Ramstein Air Base near Kaiserslautern, West Germany.
  Three aircraft of the Italian Air Force display team collided during their display, crashing to the ground in front of a crowd of about 300,000 people. There were 70 fatalities and 346 spectators sustained serious injuries in the resulting explosion and fire, and hundreds more had minor injuries.
  At the time it was the deadliest air show accident in history. It is also the third-deadliest aviation accident to happen on German soil, after the 1972 Königs Wusterhausen air disaster and the 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision.
context_section_description: In games
  A similar disaster is portrayed in the German made strategy PC game Emergency: Fighters for Life
  In literature
  Both Ramstein Air Force Base and the Ramstein air disaster figure as plot points in Donna Leon's second Guido Brunetti novel, Death in a Strange Country (1993)
  In music
  The Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein was named after this catastrophe. The second "M" was added so the name means "Ramming Stone." Rammstein's self-titled song (on the album Herzeleid (1995)) is also a reference to the event.
  In television
  The disaster was featured on the 22 February 2008, episode of Shockwave, on The History Channel and the December 10, 2000 episode of World's Most Amazing Videos as well as an episode of Real TV.
caption: The airshow disaster memorial with the names of the victims
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