Protected in an incubator, the little patient was transported aboard a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Wing Missions of this typerequire the utmost promptness. Through its Flight Departments, the Italian Air Force provides aircraft and crews ready to take off at any time and capable of operating in any weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Thousands of flight hours are carried out every year by the aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare and the 46thaPisa Air Brigade, assets always on the front line in the event of an emergency.
