Military Air Force today in full emergency missions save lives from Sardinia and Great Britain

Two Falcon 900 aircraft of the Military Air Force have been engaged today in a series of ambulance flights both domestically and for repatriation of fellow countrymen abroad.

The first involved a child of just five days of life who, at the request of the Prefecture of Cagliari, was transported urgently in the morning from the Sardinian capital to the Roman port of Ciampino, from where he was then transferred to the Child Hospital Jesus. crew, one of those H24 readily prepared for this kind of need, then departs later in the afternoon to Cagliari once to embark another infant destined in this case at the San Donato Milanese Policlinic IRCSS. The 31 ° Stormo aircraft is already part of Linate Airport and is returning to the stationary base of Ciampino, where it will be available for any other needs.

In the same hours, another Falcon 900 of the 31 ° Stormo has repatriated three seriously ill and needy nationals to be transported to national nursing centers. The flight, requested by the Italian Consulate in London, was approved by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and coordinated, as in the case of the two children from Sardinia, from the Situation Room of the Air Force Command. The first one deals with London - Pisa, where a sixty-year-old was left for hospitalization at a hospital in the Tuscan capital; From there, the aircraft is rolled back to Venice, in this case in favor of a 53-year-old man in need of hospitalization at a specialist care center in Mestre following a car accident; last stop in Turin, where an ambulance of the CTO was to wait for a girl of 35 years in need of care after a fall.

Such missions require the utmost timeliness.
Through its flight departments, 'Aeronautica Militare provides vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate in any weather condition 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. Every year thousands of flight hours are carried out by the aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, of the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare and of the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, always placed on the front line in case of emergency. The role of direction played by the operations rooms of the Armed Force is essential, where officers and non-commissioned officers on duty 24 hours a day take care of the coordination between all external requesting subjects - Prefectures, hospitals, embassies, other Departments - and the flight departments themselves.

Military Air Force today in full emergency missions save lives from Sardinia and Great Britain

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