A second urgent air ambulance rescue within a few hours, this time a Falcon 900 carrying a two-year-old girl in imminent danger of life from Cagliari to Genoa.

This is the second emergency flight within a few hours for aircraft of the Air Force. The air rescue carried out by an aircraft concluded around 1:30 PM. Falcon 50 for a six-day-old newborn, a second mission by the crews of the 31st Wing of Ciampino was necessary to transport a two-year-old girl. Taking off promptly from the Roman military base, this time, an aircraft Falcon 900.

The little one, admitted to the’G. Brotzu Hospital“ in Cagliari, She was transported to Genoa Airport along with her mother and a medical team. From there, she was taken by ambulance to’Giannina Gaslini Institute. The transport concluded around 4:30 PM today.

Even in this case it has been the Cagliari Prefecture to get in touch with the Summit Situation Room Air Squadron Command, the operations room of the Italian Air Force, which also has the task of activating and managing Urgent medical transport, giving the order to take off to the aircraft that the Armed Force keeps ready at various bases across Italy.

It 31st Wing of Ciampino It is, in fact, only one of the flying departments that the Armed Force assures to the community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with aircraft and crews ready to take off at short notice for this type of mission.

Crews and transport aircraft of the Air Force are operational every single day of the year to ensure, where requested and deemed necessary for reasons of urgency, the medical transport of individuals imminent danger to life, of organs the medical teams or, as in this case, people needing transfer to specialised care centres within the national territory. Hundreds of flight hours are carried out each year for this type of mission, supporting citizens, by the aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, of 14th Practice Wing of Pratica di Mare And of the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa. Where there are specific operational needs, the Italian Air Force also employs helicopters from the 15th Air Wing of Cervia.