The patient was transferred aboard the 46th Air Brigade aircraft with a family member, a medical team, and an ambulance for subsequent admission to the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo.
A highly delicate urgent medical transport was concluded yesterday evening, 7 July, carried out by a C-130J aircraft of the 46th Air Brigade of the Air Force. The flight enabled the rapid and safe transfer of a patient in imminent danger of life from Naples-Capodichino airport to Bergamo-Orio al Serio airport.
The patient, due to a serious illness, needed to be transferred as quickly as possible to the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo to receive life-saving specialist treatment. Given the man's critical condition, it was necessary to use a C-130J, a large aircraft capable of directly boarding the ambulance with the patient, the supporting medical team, and a family member on board, thereby ensuring continuity of care throughout all phases of the journey.
The request for intervention, made necessary to ensure maximum timeliness, was submitted by the Prefecture of Naples. The crew of the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, on standby for this type of emergency, completed boarding procedures at Naples-Capodichino, taking off at around 19:30 local time. The aircraft landed on the runway at Bergamo-Orio al Serio shortly after 21:00, after which the ambulance, once disembarked, immediately headed towards the Orobic hospital facility.
As is standard for this type of emergency intervention, the flight was authorised and coordinated by the Prime Minister's Office, the body responsible for authorising State air fleet activations for medical and rescue transport across the entire national territory.
This type of mission falls within the institutional duties that the Air Force carries out daily for the community. The armed forces' crews and transport aircraft are ready to take off 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger to life, but also of organs for transplant, medical teams or, as in this case, directly operational rescue vehicles.