Timeline
| Time | Details |
|---|---|
| 15:40 | Start of the Frecce Tricolori |
| 15:44 | Collision involving the planes with callsigns Pony 1, Pony 2 and Pony 10 |
| 15:46 | Fire fighters arrive |
| 15:48 | First American ambulance arrives |
| 15:51 | First American ambulance helicopter arrives |
| 15:52 | Second American ambulance helicopter arrives |
| 15:54 | First American ambulance helicopter takes off |
| 16:10 | German ambulance helicopter, Christoph 5 from Ludwigshafen, arrives |
| 16:11 | German ambulance helicopter, Christoph 16 from Saarbrücken, arrives |
| 16:13 | 10 American and German ambulances arrive |
| 16:28 | About 10–15 ambulances arrive. 8 medical helicopters (US Air Force, ADAC, SAR) at the scene |
| 16:33 | First medical helicopter of the Rettungsflugwache arrives |
| 16:35 | Doctor on emergency call over the radio: "We are searching for burn patients that are pulled and transported unaided away from us by the Americans. They told us nobody from them are here no more. Not all the injured people are transported away by helicopter or ambulance. There is total chaos around us and some of the injured are even transported on pick-up trucks that are not leaving emergency exit, they are driving beside the drifting visitors. It was a terrible sight to see people with burnt clothes and sagging burnt skin, squirming with pain or transfixed and shocked with pain on these vehicles." |
| 16:40 | First low platform trailer for transport of the dead bodies arrives |
| 16:45 | Second low platform trailer for transport of the dead bodies arrives |
| 16:47 | At that time the German headquarters for emergencies had no clue of the scale of the disaster, made obvious by the radio communication: "Yes, and that is the problem. We don't know yet what has happened, how many injuries and what else. The leading emergency medical did not send any feedback yet. He wants to have a synoptic view first." |
| 17:00 | Helicopters begin arriving en masse at Landstuhl Army Hospital. |
| 17:00 | At that time several medics arrive with helicopters. Later they said: "At the time we arrived shortly after 5:00 there were no injured people no more. We could see that the last badly injured people were loaded into American helicopters. We could see some pick-up trucks with injured people transporting them away. It was not possible to find an officer in charge, a director of operations or even a contact person so we got to the Johannis hospital in Landstuhl by own initiative. Asking several action forces, paramedics, police officers nobody could name a director of operations. I was asking for a managing paramedic of the operation to coordinate the evacuation. But there was none." |
| 18:05 | An ambulance helicopter arrives at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. The paramedic said later: "We found a large number of severely burnt, badly injured people absolutely unaided. When I arrived in Landstuhl, severely burnt people partly lay on wooden planks and no paramedics were there. After I aided an injured person and left her with a hospital nurse that attended us at the flight, I was treating several injured people at the helicopter landing zone at the military hospital and did not see even one American medic there." |
| 18:20 | Dead bodies are transported away from the scene with the two platform trucks |
| 18:30 | A bus full of injured people arrives in Ludwigshafen (80 km away). A paramedic later said either: "five severely burnt people were inside the bus. There was no paramedic attending this transport." |
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