Aeronautics: Urgent health flight from Catania to Rome for a child of only two months in danger of life

The small patient was transported with an 50 Stormo Falcon 31 aircraft

A child of just two months in imminent danger of life was urgently taken this morning from Catania to Ciampino on board a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo dell'Aeronautica Militare.

The small patient was then transferred to an ambulance in Rome to be admitted to the "Bambino Gesù" hospital.

The request for transport, as always happens in these cases, was received by the Prefecture of Messina at the Situation Room at the Summit of the Air Squad Command, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its tasks also that of organizing and managing this kind of interventions in favor of the population.

The Summit Situation Room therefore activated a Falcon 50, one of the assets that the Armed Force keeps ready 24 hours a day for this kind of need, which took off at 24:8 from Ciampino airport, home of the 30st Wing.

After landing in Catania, the child was boarded on the aircraft, accompanied by his father and a medical team for assistance during the flight.

Departing from the Sicilian city, towards the 10: 45 the plane landed in Ciampino airport, where the thermal cradle was transferred to the ambulance for the subsequent transport to the "Bambino Gesù" hospital.

Missions of this type need maximum timeliness. Through its Flight Departments, the Air Force provides vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate in any meteorological 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. Every year thousands of flight times are carried out by the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino, the 14 ° Stormo di Pratica di Mare and the 46a Air Brigade of Pisa, always on the front lines in case of emergency.

Aeronautics: Urgent health flight from Catania to Rome for a child of only two months in danger of life

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