The emergency medical transport from Alghero to Genoa, carried out with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force in favor of a newborn just seven days old, ended in the late afternoon today.
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, through the aircraft that the Armed Force keeps ready, 24 hours a day, every day of the year for this kind of need.
Once the Falcon 900 of the 31 ° Stormo arrived at the military airport of Alghero, it embarked the thermal cradle where the little patient was and immediately took off for the civil airport of Genoa.
Once arrived at the Ligurian port, the newborn was transferred by ambulance to the “G. Gaslini ". The military aircraft then returned to Ciampino airport where it resumed operational readiness service.
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.