The request for transport was forwarded by the Prefecture of Taranto to the Situation Room of the Rome Air Force Chief of Staff, which immediately ordered the use of one of the "readiness" aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino (Rome).
Yesterday evening a Falcon 50 took off from Ciampino airport to the Brindisi airport. After having completed the patient's boarding operations, accompanied by a doctor, he took off again for the Milan-Linate airport.
Arriving at the Milanese airport, the patient was transferred on board an ambulance to the Milan hospital to undergo the necessary specialist medical treatment.
The aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino are used for the transport of state and for missions of public utility, such as emergency medical transport of patients, serious traumatized and organs for transplants, as well as for interventions in favor of people in risk situations . The latter is an activity that, due to the imminent danger of life of the people transported, imposes an adequate level of readiness, twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.
The Brindisi detachment, employed by the Logistics Command, is often used for these types of flights as it is strategically close to the major hospitals of southern Salento.
Source: Airport Detachment - Brindisi - 1st M.llo Lieutenant Michele Candeloro
