Aeronautics: emergency flight from Cagliari to Rome for a life-threatening one-day baby

Protected in a thermal cradle, the little patient was transported with an 900 Stormo 31 Falcon aircraft
A newborn of just one day in imminent danger of life due to a serious disease was transported urgently in the early hours of this afternoon from Cagliari to Ciampino aboard a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of the Italian Air Force to be hospitalized in the “Bambino Gesù” hospital in Rome.
The Falcon 900, one of the assets that the Italian Air Force maintains every day and at any time in readiness for urgent medical transport, took off at 12:30 from Ciampino airport, home of the 31st Wing.
After landing in Cagliari, the little patient was boarded on the aircraft, protected in a thermal cradle, together with his father and a medical team for assistance during the flight.
Departing from the Sardinian city, around 13:40 the plane landed at Ciampino airport, where the thermal cradle was transferred to the ambulance for subsequent transport to the “Bambino Gesù” hospital.
The medical flight was activated, at the request of the Prefecture of Cagliari, from the Top Situations Room of the Air Squad Command, the operations room of the Air Force which is responsible, among other things, for the coordination of this kind of activity in favor of of the civilian population throughout the national territory.
Through its Flight Departments, the Italian Air Force provides vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and capable of operating in any weather condition 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. Hundreds of flight hours are carried out each year for this type of intervention by the aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare and the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa. For some special needs, helicopters from the 15th Wing of Cervia and the Combat SAR Centers (Search and Rescue) employees are also used, as happened yesterday evening for the urgent transport of a 60-year-old man from Capri to Naples, carried out with a helicopter HH-139A of the 85th SAR Combat Center of Pratica di Mare.

Aeronautics: emergency flight from Cagliari to Rome for a life-threatening one-day baby