Sardinia, life-saving flight: 42-day-old newborn transferred in incubus from Alghero to Turin with Falcon 900 of the Air Force

has just landed at Turin-Caselle airport a Falcon 900 aircraft of the Italian Air Force's 31st Wing. The aircraft carried out, on the Alghero-Turin route, the emergency medical transport of a 42-day-old neonate In imminent danger of life.

The baby, who was previously admitted to the’University Hospital of Sassari, needed specifics lifesaving cure and this is why the Prefecture of Sassari has requested immediate and prompt intervention from the Air Force to allow the child's hospitalisation at the’Maria Vittoria Hospital of Turin, will be able to receive specific medical treatment.

The flight mission was carried out by an Italian Air Force crew on standby at Ciampino military airport. It was from here that the Falcon 900 took off around 1:15 PM bound for Alghero airport, where it landed around 2:00 PM and was thus able to embark, inside a thermal cot, the little patient, accompanied by her mother, a doctor, and a nurse.

Having departed from Alghero around 14:45, the aircraft landed in Turin around 15:30, where an ambulance, awaiting the little girl, immediately transported her to the destination hospital. The Falcon 900 subsequently returned to Ciampino, resuming its duties. operational readiness in favour of the community.

Today's urgent transport was requested by the Prefecture of Sassari and was activated on the instructions of Top Situations Room of the Air Force's Air Squad Command which has, among its duties, that of managing these types of emergencies.

Through its Flying Departments, the Air Force makes aircraft and crews available Ready to take off at any moment It is able to operate even in complex weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, often children, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants.

Hundreds of flight hours are carried out every year for this type of operation by the Air Force aircraft, particularly of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, of 14th Practice Wing of Pratica di Mare, of 46th Air Brigade of Pisa from the helicopters of the 15th Wing, Cervia, these latter ones recently engaged in constant support of the population of’Emilia-Romagna, severely affected by the severe flooding.