The life-saving flight from Alghero to Pescara is the fourth made by the Italian Air Force in the last 48 hours
The emergency medical transport from Alghero to Pescara on board a Falcon 18 aircraft of the 50st Wing of the Italian Air Force in favor of a pregnant woman hospitalized at the University Hospital of Sassari in cause of threatened preterm triplets.
The aircraft, which took off from Ciampino military airport at 15.30 pm, reached Alghero airport in just over an hour. After the embarkation of the woman assisted by a medical team and accompanied by a family member, the military aircraft immediately departed for the Pescara airport from which the patient was transported by ambulance to the SS Annunziata Hospital in Chieti.
The emergency flight, requested by the Prefecture of Sassari, was immediately arranged and coordinated by the Top Situation Room of the Air Squad Command, the operations room of the Air Force which also has among its tasks to activate and manage transport urgent health care, giving the order to take off to the aircraft that the Armed Force maintains in a state of operational readiness, 24 hours a day, in various bases, for this kind of need.
This just concluded is the fourth urgent medical flight carried out by the crews of the Air Force in the last 48 hours.
Missions of this type require maximum and absolute timeliness, guaranteed by a meticulous and capillary organization and well-established procedures. Through its Flight Departments, the Air Force provides vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate even in complex weather conditions 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.