A Falcon 50 from the 31st Squadron at Ciampino carried out three operational missions today, two of which were in favor of two children in imminent danger of life. Another life-saving flight for a newborn yesterday.

Two emergency flights Today for the aircraft of the 31st Air Force Squadron of the Italian Air Force. After the transport carried out yesterday afternoon by a Falcon 900 aircraft in favor of a newborn baby only 13 days old, today two more medical flights, this time operated by a Falcon 50 With the help of the same Stormo service, they were able to have a seven-year-old girl transferred from Bari to Palermo promptly, and subsequently, a 15-day-old newborn was able to reach the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome as soon as possible from Cagliari.

The first mission involved the transfer of the seven-year-old girl, who was in imminent danger of her life (hence the acronym IPV to indicate this type of transport carried out by the Air Force aircraft), and was admitted to the’Pediatric Hospital “Giovanni XXIII” in Bari, that it could be transferred to the’Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and High-Speciality Therapies in Palermo, to receive specific treatment.

It Falcon 50, Departing from Ciampino around 12 o’clock, the ambulance reached Bari in a short time to take the little patient aboard, accompanied by her mother and assisted in flight by a medical team from the Bari hospital, before landing at Palermo airport shortly before 13 o’clock. Here, the girl She was entrusted to the care of the doctors who were waiting for her, with an ambulance, for the subsequent transfer to the Sicilian hospital.

Before returning to Ciampino, the Air Force aircraft escorted the medical team back to Bari to enable them to promptly perform a life-saving operation on another patient. Departing from Palermo at approximately 13:20, the aircraft landed in Bari shortly after 14:00. At this point, however, one of the crew members was not on board. new health emergency He ensured that the Falcon 50 flew from Bari directly to Cagliari for another emergency medical transport, this time for a newborn baby only 15 days old.

In this case, the little boy needed to be transferred as quickly as possible from the’Hospital Monserrato “Duilio Casula” (CA) all’Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome. Once the child was onboard, accompanied by his parents and a medical team, the Air Force aircraft took off from Cagliari at approximately 16:20 and landed at the 31st Squadron military airport in Ciampino after about an hour of flight. In this case too, an ambulance was waiting for the little boy for the subsequent transfer to the Roman Hospital.

The aircraft then resumed its service of operational readiness in favor of the community.

It was an intense day with three consecutive missions for the crews of the 31st Squadron. The double mission The work carried out on the Bari-Palermo-Bari route was carried out following a report from Bari Prefecture at the Situation Room of the Summit Air Squad Command – the Operation room of the Air Force, which among its tasks also includes activating and managing emergency medical transports – which immediately affected the 31st Ciampino Squadron, one of the units that performs operational readiness for such missions. Third mission, The operation on the Bari-Cagliari-Ciampino route was finally carried out at the request of Cagliari Prefecture.

The Air Force Flight Departments are at the disposal of the population 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with vehicles and crews capable of transporting patients, organs, medical teams, and ambulances, even in complex weather conditions.

Hundreds of hours of flight are carried out every year for this type of intervention, by aircraft 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.