During the night a young woman waiting for a transplant was transferred urgently with a transport aircraft Falcon 900 Easy of the 31 ° Stormo, from the military airport of Gioia del Colle (BA) to that of Rivolto (UD) to allow hospitalization at the University Hospital - Santa Maria della Misericordia of Udine.
Transportation, requested by the Prefecture of Bari to the Summit Situation Room of the Air Team Command, was necessary due to the patient's critical condition. The aircraft, which took off from Gioia del Colle airport (BA), landed in the middle of the night at the Rivolto military airport (UD) after about an hour of flight.
The aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino are used for state transport and for public utility missions, such as emergency medical transport of the sick, severely traumatized and transplant organs, as well as for interventions in favor of people in any case in risk situations. This last activity, given the imminent danger of life of the transported people, imposes a level of readiness twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 140 missions have been carried out by aircraft and crews of the Air Force for emergency medical transport in favor of the community.
