A 28-year-old man was urgently transferred from Moscow to Milan Linate to be admitted to the Manzoni Institute in Lecco. The transport was necessary due to the patient’s critical condition and the Italian Consulate in Moscow requested the Situation Room of the Air Force General Staff to immediately activate the medical flight, which was carried out with a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31st Flight of Ciampino (RM). The aircraft, which landed at 19:05 at Milan Linate military airport, took the patient off the plane, accompanied by the medical team and family members, who were immediately transferred to the Lariana hospital on board an ambulance.
After completing the operations, the aircraft departed at 20:10 from Ciampino Airport (RM). The Airport Command/General Headquarters of the 1st Air Region of Milan-Linate has the task of providing 24-hour assistance to institutional aircraft, as well as to aircraft engaged in medical and humanitarian missions in transit in Milan, and of supporting, from a logistical and administrative perspective, the Entities, the Departments of the Italian Air Force and the Inter-Armed Forces Command of the 1st Air Region/Inter-Armed Forces Military Guard Command and the Military Airport Command of Milan. The Italian Air Force performs emergency medical transport of sick people, seriously injured people, and people in imminent danger of life and for organ transplants. The crews and aircraft of the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, the 31st Ciampino Squadron (RM), the 14th Pratica di Mare Squadron (RM) and the 15th Cervia Squadron (RA), are able to carry out medical/humanitarian transports at every latitude and longitude, and in any weather and light conditions, thus providing the required assistance that is often desperately needed.
Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, the staff of the Air Force is on standby to carry out this type of mission, defined in technical jargon as “imminent life-threatening danger”, or humanitarian ones like in this case.
