Transported from Calabria with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo, the little girl was hospitalized at the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome.
The mission of the Falcon 900 of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force, which transported a baby girl of just five days in imminent danger of life inside a thermal cradle, ended in the late afternoon. The transport, which took place with the utmost urgency from the Civil Hospital of Catanzaro, ended with the hospitalization of the very young patient at the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome.
The Falcon 900, one of the assets that the Air Force keeps in operational readiness every day, 24 hours a day, to provide aid to the community, took off from Ciampino airport to embark the little patient in Lamezia Terme, together with a medical team who ensured assistance during the flight.
After leaving the Calabrian airport, the plane then landed in Ciampino in the afternoon where the little girl was immediately transferred to the hospital.
The medical flight was activated, at the request of the Prefecture of Catanzaro, from the Summit Situation Room of the Air Squad Command, the operations room of the Air Force which deals, among other things, with the coordination of this kind of activity in favor of of the civilian population throughout the national territory.
Through its Flight Departments, the Air Force makes available vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate in any weather condition to ensure urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, as happened today , but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Hundreds of flight hours are carried out every year for this kind of intervention by the aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino, of the 14 ° Stormo of Pratica di Mare and of the 46a Air Brigade of Pisa.