Three patients in imminent danger of their lives were transported in a few hours by a Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing. Among them was a 2-year-old child.
Three air rescues were carried out between the afternoon of Tuesday 28 February and the early hours of Wednesday 1 March. Three life jackets the aircraft Falcon 50, of the airbase 31st Wing, Ciampino, carried out for the transport of an equal number of patients, all in imminent danger to life. Among these, a child of just two years old.
The first emergency flight, conducted on the Pescara – Venice route, was requested by Chieti Prefecture In favour of a 41-year-old man, formerly admitted to the Annunziata Hospital in Chieti and in need of urgent transfer to the University Hospital Company of Padua. Accompanied by two doctors, the patient left Pescara on board the Falcon 50 around 2:30 PM on Tuesday, reaching Venice after about an hour of flight.
It arrives immediately after the request from the Oristano Prefecture, this time for a 58-year-old woman admitted to the San Martino Hospital in Oristano and transferred to the Molinette Hospital in Turin. The aircraft, departing from Venice around 4:15 PM, landed at Cagliari Elmas airport at approximately 5:30 PM. After the patient was boarded, accompanied by a doctor and a nurse from the Sardinian hospital, the Falcon 50 landed at Turin-Caselle airport shortly after 7:00 PM.
It is Cagliari Prefecture finally that, in the dead of night, requires the prompt intervention of the’Italian Air Force for urgent transport of a two-year-old child. The child, admitted to the G. Brotzu hospital in Cagliari, needed to be urgently transferred to the Giannina Gaslini Institute in Genoa. The Falcon 50 therefore, given the need to prioritise the boarding of the medical team from Gaslini who would assist the baby during the flight, first headed to Genoa before reaching Cagliari Elmas airport around 3:00 AM. Once the young patient was also on board, the aircraft left the Sardinian airport in the early hours of the morning and landed in Genoa after just over half an hour of flight.
All medical transports, upon receiving requests from the Prefectures involved, were immediately coordinated by Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operations room of the Air Force, which has, among its tasks, also that of arranging and managing these types of missions through the activation of one of the aircraft that it Armed Forces they have ready, 24 hours a day, in various military bases, for this kind of need.
There have already been 4 air rescues in just three days. Indeed, on Monday, February 27th, another life-saving flight made it possible for a six-year-old girl to reach the Gaslini Hospital in Genoa from Sardinia in a short time.
I Flight departments The Italian Air Force's aircraft are available to the public every single day of the year, with crews and vehicles capable of operating with the utmost speed, even in complex weather conditions, ensuring the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of death, but also of organs, medical teams or, as in the case of C130J aircraft from the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, ambulances.
Hundreds of flight hours are carried out each year for this type of operation by aircraft from the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare, the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, and by helicopters from the 15th Wing of Cervia.
