Aeronautica Militare: a woman in danger of life due to a serious respiratory problem she transports from Pescara to Milan

A woman of 54 years in danger of life due to a serious respiratory problem was transported in the evening today with a Falcon 50 of the Air Force from Pescara to Milan Linate, before being transferred to the hospital San Raffaele for treatment specialists of the case.

The aircraft, one of the armed assets of the Armed Forces ready for this kind of emergency medical transport, took off in the afternoon at a time to the capital of Abruzzo from the base station of Ciampino, home of the 31 ° Stormo. The take-off order was given by the Summit Situation Room of the Air Squad Command, the Air Force Operations Room which deals - among others - with the coordination and management of this kind of missions to the community on request. Hospitals and Prefectures throughout the national territory. In this case, in fact, it was precisely the Prefecture of Pescara to request the intervention of the military aircraft given the urgency and the particular clinical conditions of the patient.

There are hundreds, every year, the hours of flight carried out by Air Force aircraft for emergency medical transport, both of life-threatening people and of teams and / or organs, for humanitarian flights, or for search and rescue missions. Crews of the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino, of the 15 ° Stormo of Cervia and of the SAR (Search and Rescue) employees, of the 46 ^ Air Brigade of Pisa and of the 14 ° Stormo of Pratica di Mare are ready 365 days a year, 24 hours on 24, to take off in a very short time for any destination in Italy and abroad at the request of Hospitals, Prefectures precisely, and in the case of missions abroad of diplomatic representations. Only in the 2017 just concluded were 450 flight hours carried out to provide assistance to more than 200 people in difficulty or in imminent danger of life.

Aeronautica Militare: a woman in danger of life due to a serious respiratory problem she transports from Pescara to Milan