AN EMERGENCY FLIGHT IN THE NIGHT FROM PROCIDA TO CAPODICHINO TO RESCUE A WOMAN IN LIFE-THREATENING CONDITION

A woman in imminent danger of her life was urgently transported aboard an HH-139 helicopter from the 85th SAR Center in Pratica di Mare to Capodichino. In the middle of the night, at the request of the Naples Prefecture, an HH-139 helicopter from the 85th SAR Center took off from the airport in Pratica di Mare to pick up a 56-year-old woman with a serious illness and in need of urgent specialized care on the island of Procida. The military helicopter, arriving on the island of Procida, loaded the woman onto board and then headed to Capodichino Airport (Na), where the patient was unloaded and subsequently transferred by ambulance to a specialized hospital facility. The 85th CSAR Center in Pratica di Mare is one of the 15th Air Force Flight Wing Centers that guarantees 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the search and rescue of flight crews in distress and that contributes to public utility activities such as the search for missing persons at sea or in the mountains, the emergency medical transport of patients in life-threatening danger and the rescue of seriously injured traumatized people. Since its establishment to date, the crews of the 15th Flight Wing have saved approximately 7,300 people in life-threatening danger.