A Falcon 50 aircraft from the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force landed at Genoa Airport just minutes ago. It performed an urgent medical transport of an 11-month-old baby. The infant, who was admitted to San Francesco Hospital in Nuoro, requires life-saving specialist treatment at the Gaslini Paediatric Hospital.
The mission was carried out by an Air Force crew who took off from Ciampino military airport, home of the 31st Wing, early in the afternoon, bound for Olbia airport to board the young patient with the medical team and his mother.
The urgent transport was requested by the Prefecture of Nuoro and took off on the orders of the Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command, which among its duties includes activating and managing these types of emergencies.
Through its Flying Departments, the Air Force makes aircraft and crews available, ready to take off at any time and capable of operating even in complex weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of death, as happened in this case, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Hundreds of flying hours are carried out each year for these types of operations by aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare, the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, and by helicopters of the 15th Wing of Cervia, which in recent days have been constantly engaged in supporting the population of Emilia-Romagna severely affected by the severe flooding.
