The intervention, carried out with an F-900 of the 31st Stormtrooper Squadron from Ciampino, was carried out to ensure an emergency organ transplant. The air transport, necessary given the patient’s critical condition, was requested by the Brindisi Prefecture from the Situation Room of the Air Staff, which immediately ordered the activation of the medical flight, carried out with an F-900 of the 31st Stormtrooper Squadron from Ciampino (RM). The aircraft, which landed at 2:45 local time at the Linate military airport (Milan), was carrying the patient and an accompanying person who arrived shortly afterwards at the hospital in the Lombardy capital.
Once the mission was completed, the Falcon 900 took off at 3:20 local time towards Ciampino. The Air Traffic Control Command/General Headquarters of the 1st Air Region of Milan-Linate has the task of providing 24/7 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, departments of the Italian Air Force and inter-forces that are based at the headquarters of the 1st Air Region/Inter-forces Military Guard Command and the Military Airport Command of Milan.
