URGENT MEDICAL FLIGHT FROM ALGHERO TO GENOA FOR AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD CHILD IN IMMINENT DANGER OF DEATH

The young patient was transported on a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Wing

19/04/2019

Source: Public Information Office - Rome

Author: Lt Col Salvatore De Maio

The young patient was transported aboard a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Wing. An eleven-year-old child in imminent danger of life due to a severe condition was urgently transported this afternoon from Alghero to Genoa aboard a Falcon 900 aircraft of the Italian Air Force's 31st Wing to be admitted to the “Giannina Gaslini” paediatric hospital in the Ligurian city. Through its Flight Departments, the Italian Air Force provides aircraft and crews ready to take off at any time and capable of operating in any weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams foraPisa Air Brigade.