A Falcon 50 aircraft of the Air Force took off in the middle of the night from the 31st Stormo at Ciampino and performed the emergency medical transport.
A Falcon 50 aircraft of the Air Force took off in the middle of the night from the 31st Stormo at Ciampino and performed the emergency medical transport.
The emergency medical transport carried out by an ambulance ended last night around 1:30 a.m. Falcon 50 of the 31st Air Force Squadron of the Italian Air Force, which took off from the military airport of Cagliari and landed at Linate (MI), with a newborn one-day-old on board who was in imminent danger of life.
The request for an immediate transfer to’ Institute of Hospitalization and Care of Scientific Character – Polyclinic San Donato Milanese was requested by the Prefectural Authority of Cagliari to the Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operational room of the Air Force that has among its tasks the organization and management of this type of transport throughout the national territory.
On board the military aircraft, the little patient was placed in a thermal cradle, accompanied by an’team They arrived at Linate airport, where the ambulance was waiting to complete the transfer to the Policlinico di San Donato Milanese.
Through its Flight Departments, the Italian Air Force makes available means and crews ready to take off at any time and capable of operating even in complex meteorological conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Hundreds of hours of flight are carried out every year for this type of intervention by the aircraft of the Italian Air Force. 31st Wing from Ciampino, the 14th Stormtrooper Squadron of Pratica di Mare, the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa and the helicopters of the 15th Stormtrooper Squadron of Cervia.
