Emergency medical transport took place today from Palermo to Milan, with a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Air Force, in favor of a baby just over two weeks old in need of urgent specialist care.
The emergency flight, requested by the Prefecture of Palermo, was immediately arranged and coordinated by the Top Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its tasks also that of activating and managing transport urgent healthcare, through the aircraft and crews that the Armed Forces keep in a state of readiness, 24 hours a day, every day of the year for this type of need.
Once the Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing arrived at Palermo Punta Raisi airport, it took the little patient on board and immediately took off, around 14pm, for Milan Linate airport.
Once he arrived at the Lombardy airport, after about an hour and a half of flight, the child was transferred by ambulance to the San Donato Milanese Polyclinic. 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 difficult weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of their lives, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Every year there are hundreds of flight hours carried out 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.