Military Air Force: Blue Angels in Flight to Save a Life

A just-day-old baby in an imminent life threat was transported urgently last night from Cagliari to Milan with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31 ° Flock of Military Air Force.

The little patient, inside a thermal cradle, was transferred to the Lombard capital to be hospitalized in the IRCCS (Institute for Scientific Hospitalization and Care) Policlinico San Donato.

The request for transportation, as happens in these cases, has come from the Prefecture of Cagliari to the Situation Room of the Summit of the Air Squad Command, the operating room of the Air Force that has among its tasks that of organizing and managing this kind of transport on all the national territory in coordination, precisely, with the Prefectures.

The Summit Situation Room then activated a Falcon 900, one of the arrangements that the Armed Forces ready 24 hours on 24 for this kind of need. Towards the 22: 00 the aircraft took off from Ciampino Airport, home of the 31 ° Stormo, towards Cagliari Airport, where the thermal cradle was boarded with the small patient, accompanied by his father, uncle and A medical team for assistance during the flight.

From the Sardinian city, shortly after the plane landed at Milan Linate Airport, where the child was transported to the San Donato Police Department.

Such missions require the utmost timeliness. Through its Flight Departments, the Military Aeronautics provides facilities and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate in any weather condition. There are thousands of flights flying every year by the 31 ° Forklifts of Ciampino, the 14 ° Fountain of Sea Practice and the 46a Air Brigade of Pisa, which are always on the front line in an emergency.

Military Air Force: Blue Angels in Flight to Save a Life