The baby was transported in a thermal cradle, from Sardinia, with a Falcon 900 aircraft from the 31 ° Stormo
A Falcon 900 aircraft, departed from the military base of Ciampino, site of the 31 ° Stormo of the Air Force, took off a few hours ago at a time of Cagliari to embark an infant of only 20 days of life in need of urgent care. For the transport of the small one was used a special thermal cradle of which the aircraft is equipped.
Once in Cagliari, the Air Force crew took steps to allow the child to be boarded immediately together with the parents and a medical team from the Monserrato University Hospital (CA), where the child was hospitalized. The life-saving flight, which took place with the utmost urgency on the Cagliari - Milan Malpensa route, ended just before 15:00. Once at the Lombard airport, an ambulance allowed the child to be subsequently transported to the San Donato Polyclinic (MI).
It was the Prefecture of Cagliari that activated the medical flight procedures by contacting the Top Situation Room of the Air Squad Command, the operations room of the Air Force which has, among its tasks, also that of coordinating this kind of activity in favor of of the civilian population, throughout the national territory.
The Falcon 900 is just one of the assets that the Italian Air Force maintains in operational readiness every day, 24 hours a day, to provide aid to the community. In fact, through its Flight Departments, the Air Force provides vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate even in adverse weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, as happened today for the little patient, but also for 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.