The patient on board a Falcon 900 from the 31st Air Wing arrived late in the evening at Linate Airport for the subsequent transfer to San Donato Hospital. The mission of a Falcon 900 from the 31st Air Wing of the Italian Air Force, with a very small patient of 2 days on board, which necessitated emergency medical transport from the University Hospital of Monserrato (Cagliari) to the San Donato Hospital in Milan, where she will be admitted, has recently concluded.
The life-saving flight, requested by the Cagliari Prefecture, was immediately coordinated by the Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operational room of the Air Force that also has the task of organizing and managing this type of missions through the activation of one of the aircraft that the Armed Forces keeps ready 24/7 at various bases for this kind of need.
The aircraft, which took off from Ciampino Airport this evening, reached Cagliari Airport where, in compliance with the precautionary measures related to the Covid-19 health emergency, it carried the very small patient on board in a thermal stretcher, along with both parents and the medical team who provided the medical care during the flight. The Falcon 900 then landed at Linate Airport where the little girl was transferred to the Milan hospital. The 31st Stormo aircraft then returned to Ciampino Airport.
Operations of this type require the utmost promptness. The Air Force Flight Departments are available to the public 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, even on holidays like today, with means and crews capable of operating, even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, but also of organs, medical teams or ambulances.
