During the night between the 19 and the 20 February, the Air Force carried out two interventions for the transport of two small patients in imminent danger of life.
The C 130 aircraft of the 46 ^ Pisa Air Brigade and a FALCON 50 of the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino got up in the middle of last night for a four-month-old and a one-year-old boy respectively.
The first request, arrived from the Prefecture of Pescara, involved a child who needed transportation in an ambulance, which is why the Operative Room of the Army summit alerted the 46esima Air Brigade of Pisa where a C-130, the only one able to ensure this type of transport, he got up in direct flight, first in Genoa to take the ambulance and the medical team and, subsequently, to Pescara to transport the small patient to Genoa. From here, in the early hours of the morning, the child was transported by ambulance to the Gaslini Hospital of Genoa to receive the necessary treatment.
The second request came from the Prefecture of Sassari which alerted, also in this case, the Top Situation Room of the Air Squad Command, responsible for coordinating and managing this kind of missions in favor of the community. The FALCON 50 of the 31 ° Stormo di Ciampino, which arrived in Alghero to embark a newborn of only four months, took off in the night and landed in Milan Linate about an hour later. Once in Milan, the little patient was transported to the Niguarda Ca 'Granda hospital to receive the required treatment.
Both aircraft, after the two emergency transport operations, respectively returned to Pisa and Ciampino.
Missions of this type need maximum timeliness. As shown by the two transports carried out, the Air Force Departments are available to the community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with vehicles and crews able to operate in any meteorological condition to ensure urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, but also of organs, medical teams or ambulances, just as happened tonight.