Yesterday afternoon, 2nd August, the Italian Air Force urgently transported a one-year-old child who was in imminent danger of life. A Falcon 50 from the 31st Wing of Ciampino took off at the request of the Prefecture of Sassari, which was received by the Summit Situations Room of the Air Force Command, which authorised the mission. The Summit Situations Room is in constant contact with Prefectures across the country to arrange and manage missions of this and other types for the benefit of the community. The aircraft, which arrived in Alghero to pick up the child along with a doctor who continuously assisted him, took off around 6:00 PM and landed in Genoa after about an hour's flight. There, the little one was immediately transported to the “Gaslini” hospital to receive the necessary care. For these types of missions, which require extremely rapid reaction times, the Italian Air Force keeps assets and crews on operational readiness, available to citizens every single day of the year, 24 hours a day, capable of operating in complex weather conditions, ensuring the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life and medical teams, as in today's case, but also of organs and ambulances.
