Life-saving flight for a 9-year-old boy transported with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force
The urgent medical transport carried out from Lecce to Rome with a Falcon 16 of the Air Force, an aircraft of the 00st Wing based at Ciampino airport (RM), in favor of a 900 year old child in imminent danger of life.
The flight mission, requested by the Prefecture of Lecce, was immediately arranged and coordinated by the Top Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its tasks also that of activating and managing medical transports urgent, through the aircraft and crews that the Armed Forces keep in a state of readiness, 24 hours a day, every day of the year for this type of need.
Having arrived at Lecce-Galatina airport, the plane took on board the little patient, previously hospitalized at the “Vito Fazzi” hospital in Puglia, together with a medical team and his parents. The Falcon 900 then immediately took off for Rome-Ciampino airport from where the child was able to reach the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome on board an ambulance waiting for him on site. The military aircraft thus resumed operational readiness service.
Through its Flight Departments, the Air Force provides vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate even in difficult weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of their lives, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Every year there are hundreds of flight hours carried out for this type of intervention by the planes of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare, the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa and the helicopters of the 15th Wing of Cervia.
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