An Air Force Falcon 900 has been activated to urgently transport a woman in her 25th week of pregnancy in imminent danger of life
The emergency medical transport from Alghero to Pescara on board a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo di Ciampino has recently been completed in favor of a 36-year-old pregnant woman admitted to the SS Annunziata Civil Hospital in Sassari for complications to the fetus.
The aircraft, which took off in the late morning from Ciampino military airport, reached Alghero airport in just over an hour. After boarding the woman assisted by a medical team and accompanied by her husband, the military aircraft immediately left for Pescara airport where the patient continued her journey by ambulance to the SS Annunziata Hospital in Chieti.
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, giving the order to take off to the aircraft that the Armed Force maintains in a state of operational readiness, 24 hours a day, for this kind of need.
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.