A plane landed at Milan Linate Airport about an hour ago Falcon 900 Easy aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force. The aircraft carried out, on the Catania-Milan route, the emergency medical transport of a boy 14 years In imminent danger of life.

The young patient, previously admitted to the “Sant'Elia” Hospital of Caltanissetta, needed specifics lifesaving cure and that's why the Caltanissetta Prefecture requested the immediate and timely intervention of the Air Force to allow the boy to be admitted to the’“Carlo Besta” Neurological Institute of Milan, will be able to receive specific medical treatment.

The flight mission was carried out by an Italian Air Force crew on standby at Ciampino military airport. It is from here, in fact, that the Falcon 900 Easy it took off for the Sicilian airport, where the patient, who had previously arrived by air ambulance at Catania-Fontanarossa airport, was embarked on the Falcon, accompanied by his parents and a medical team.

Having departed from Catania around 12:30 PM, the aircraft landed at Linate shortly after 2:00 PM. Here, an ambulance, awaiting the fourteen-year-old, immediately transported him to the designated hospital, while the Falcon 900 Easy returned to Ciampino, resuming its duties. operational readiness in favour of the community.

Emergency transport was activated on the indication of the Top Situations Room of the Air Force's Air Squad Command which has, among its duties, that of managing these types of emergencies.

Through its Flying Departments, the Air Force makes aircraft and crews available Ready to take off at any moment It is able to operate even in complex weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, often children, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants.

Hundreds of flight hours are carried out every year for this type of operation by the Air Force aircraft, particularly of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, of 14th Practice Wing of Pratica di Mare, of 46th Air Brigade of Pisa from the helicopters of the 15th Air Wing of Cervia.