Double ambulance flight within twelve hours for the same crew of the Ciampino 31 ° Wing, one of the teams of pilots and specialists of the Italian Air Force ready to take off 24 hours on 24 for emergency medical transport.
The first request arrived late yesterday, Friday 11 November, by the Prefecture of Catania to the Situation Room of the Military Aeronautics Summit, the operations center based in Palazzo AM in Rome, where this genre is also managed and coordinated of needs. Shortly after midnight a Falcon 900 Easy was already flying towards Pisa to take on a medical team from the Siena Hospital, urgently awaited in Catania to carry out an organ harvesting operation at the Cannizzaro Hospital. Once arrived in Sicily, the crew waited for the duration of the operation and then returned to Pisa, for the subsequent transfer of the team and organs to Siena.
While this first mission was drawing to a close, the AM Situation Room received a new request for support, this time from Sardinia. After landing in Pisa, then, the same Falcon 900 took off towards Olbia, where he boarded a woman of 73 who was seriously cardiopathic and who needed immediate transfer to the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. Once this second mission was completed, with the landing and disembarkation of the patient in Linate, the aircraft returned to Rome.
