The woman was transported from Bari to Venice with an Air Force F900 aircraft
A life-saving flight has just concluded, carried out by a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, to urgently transport a 42-year-old Italian citizen in imminent danger of life from Bari to Venice.
The request for transport, as required by the emergency procedures, was received from the Prefecture of Bari to the Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the Air Force operations room which has among its duties that of arranging and managing this type of missions through the activation of one of the aircraft that the Armed Forces keeps ready 24 hours a day, in various bases, for this kind of need.
The patient, accompanied by healthcare personnel, was embarked on board the military aircraft which took off from Bari airport around 18.00.
After about an hour of flight, the F900 landed at the Venice airport where the woman was immediately transferred by ambulance for subsequent admission to the Polyclinic Hospital of Padua.
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Missions of this type require maximum timeliness. The Flight Departments of the Air Force are available to the community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with vehicles and crews capable of operating, even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger to life, but also to organs, medical teams or ambulances. Just today, in Ciampino, the milestone of 150.000 flight hours was celebrated since the entry into service of the Falcon aircraft in the Air Force, assets at the forefront of this type of intervention.