Three patients in imminent danger of life transported in a few hours with a Falcon 50 of the 31st Stormo. Among them also a 2-year-old boy
Three air rescues were carried out between the afternoon of Tuesday 28 February and the early hours of the morning of Wednesday 1 March. Three life-saving flights that the Falcon 50 aircraft, from the air base of the 31st Stormo, in Ciampino, performed for the transport of as many patients, all in imminent danger of life. Among these, even a child of only two years.
The first emergency flight, carried out on the Pescara - Venice route, was requested by the Prefecture of Chieti in favor of a 41-year-old man, previously hospitalized at the Annunziata Hospital in Chieti and in need of urgent transfer to the hospital University of Padua. Accompanied by two doctors, the patient left Pescara aboard the Falcon 50 at around 14pm on Tuesday, reaching Venice after about an hour's flight.
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It arrives immediately after the request of the Prefecture of Oristano, this time for a 58-year-old woman hospitalized in the San Martino hospital in Oristano and transferred to the Molinette hospital in Turin. The aircraft then left Venice around 16 pm and landed at Cagliari Elmas airport at around 15 pm. Once the patient was embarked, accompanied by a doctor and a nurse from the Sardinian hospital, the Falcon 17 landed at the Turin – Caselle airport shortly after 30:50.
Finally, it is the Prefecture of Cagliari which, in the middle of the night, requests the timely intervention of the Air Force for the urgent transport of a child of only two years. The child, hospitalized at the Cagliari G. Brotzu Hospital, needed to be transferred with extreme urgency to the Giannina Gaslini Institute in Genoa. The Falcon 50 therefore, given the need to take on board the Gaslini medical team as a priority who would have assisted the child during the flight, first headed to Genoa and then reached Cagliari Elmas airport around 3:00. Once the little patient was also embarked, the aircraft left the Sardinian airport in the early hours of the morning and landed in Genoa after just over half an hour of flight.
All medical transports, having received the requests from the Prefectures involved, were immediately coordinated by the Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operations room of the Air Force which has, among its tasks, also that of arranging and managing this type of mission through the activation of one of the aircraft that the Armed Forces keeps ready, 24 hours a day, in various military bases for this kind of need.
There are already 4 air rescues carried out in just three days. In fact, on Monday 27 February, another life-saving flight allowed a six-year-old girl to reach the Gaslini hospital in Genoa in a short time from Sardinia.
The Flight Departments of the Air Force are available to the community every single day of the year, with vehicles and crews capable of operating as quickly as possible, even in complex weather conditions, ensuring the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, but also of organs, medical teams or, as in the case of the C130J aircraft of the 46th Pisa Air Brigade, ambulances.
Hundreds of flight hours are carried out every year for this type of intervention by the aircraft 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.