A 6-year-old girl was urgently transported from Alghero to Genoa in a Falcon 50 of the 31st Air Force of the Italian Air Force for immediate hospitalization at the Gaslini Hospital
In the early afternoon of today, Monday 27 February, the following took place: Emergency medical transport from Alghero to Genoa, by a transport aircraft Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing from the Air Force, in favor of a 6-year-old girl in imminent danger to life.
The emergency flight was requested by the Sassari Prefecture and coordinated by the Situation Room of the Air Force Air Force Command.
After the boarding operations carried out by the staff of the flight line of the airport detachment in Alghero, together with the flight crew of the Falcon 50, the aircraft took off towards the airport of Genoa; upon arrival, the little patient, along with her father and the’Medical team from the Pediatric Department of the Hospital of Sassari, She was immediately transferred in an ambulance and admitted to the’Pediatric Hospital Gaslini.
The military aircraft then returned to Ciampino Airport where it resumed operational readiness service.
The Italian Air Force's flight units are available to the public 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with aircraft and crews capable of operating even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of death, but also of organs, medical teams or ambulances.
Hundreds of flight hours are carried out each year for this type of intervention by the aircraft 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 Air Wing of Cervia.
