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May 1st: Emergency ambulance flight from Alghero to Genoa for a newborn in danger of life

Without interruption, the operational activity of the Air Force crews is on alert 365 days a year

  • 01/05/2022
Author: Cap Simone Antonetti
  • Source: Public Information Office
It ended on Sunday evening May 1st It Emergency medical transport, Yes Alghero to Genoa, carried out with an aircraft Falcon 900 del 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force in favour of a newborn baby of just one day old.
 
It emergency flight, required by Sassari Prefecture, it was immediately arranged and coordinated by Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command, The Air Force operational room, which among its tasks also includes activating and managing emergency medical transports through the aircraft that the Armed Forces keep ready, 24 hours a day, every day of the year for this kind of need.
 
It Falcon 900 The 31st Squadron, upon arriving at the military airport of Alghero, boarded the aircraft. incubator where the little patient was and immediately took off towards’Civil airport of Genoa.  
 
Once he arrived at the Ligurian quay, the newborn was transferred by ambulance to the’“G. Gaslini” Paediatric Hospital”. The military aircraft then returned to Ciampino airport where it resumed its operational readiness service.

Through its Flying Departments, the Air Force makes aircraft and crews available, ready to take off at any moment and capable of operating even in complex weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of death, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Hundreds of flying hours are carried out each year for this type of mission by the aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, from 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare and the 46th Air Brigade in Pisa.

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