It ended in the early afternoon of today, Tuesday, January 17th. Emergency medical transport from Cagliari to Milan carried out with a Falcon 900 transport aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Air Force in favor of a newborn less than a month and a half old.
The urgent flight, requested by Cagliari Prefecture, it was immediately arranged and coordinated by Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command, The Air Force operations room, which among its tasks also includes activating and managing emergency medical transports, through the aircraft the Armed Forces keep ready 24 hours a day, every day of the year for this type of need.
It Falcon 900 of the 31st Wing once arrived at the airport in Cagliari he boarded the ship the thermal cradle where the little patient was and it immediately took off towards the airport of Milan.
Once arrived at the Lombard airport, the newborn was transferred in an ambulance to Institute of Hospitalization and Care of Scientific Character Policlinico San Donato. The military aircraft then returned to Ciampino Airport, where it resumed its operational readiness service.
Through its Flight Departments, the 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 life-threatening danger, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Hundreds of hours of flight are performed every year for this type of intervention by the Air Force aircraft. 31st Wing of Ciampino, from 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare and the 46th Air Brigade in Pisa.
