It is the third life-saving flight carried out in the last 24 hours by the Italian Air Force
In the afternoon the medical transport of a man in imminent danger of life was concluded, who was transported from the military airport of Galatina (LE) to that of Tessera (VE) with a C-130J plane of the 46th Air Brigade.
An ambulance carrying the sixty-year-old patient and a medical team from the “Vito Fazzi” hospital in Lecce was boarded on the military aircraft.
The request for transport was received by the Prefecture of Lecce at the Situation Room at the Summit of the Command of the Air Squad, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its tasks that of organizing and managing this kind of transport throughout the national territory. The one that has just ended is the third of the urgent medical flights that have been carried out in this intense weekend by the crews of the Air Force.
Shortly before 12:00, the C-130J took off from Pisa, headquarters of the 46th Air Brigade, in the direction of Galatina (LE), where the ambulance boarding operations were carried out immediately after landing.
Having departed from the Salento city, the aircraft landed around 16 pm at the Marco Polo airport in Tessera (VE), from where the man was immediately transferred to the University Hospital of Padua.
The Air Force Flight Departments are available to the community every single day of the year, with vehicles and crews able to operate with the utmost timeliness, even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger to life, but also to organs, medical teams or, as in the case of the C130J aircraft of the 46th Pisa Air Brigade, ambulances.