A 1-year-old girl suffering from a severe form of spinal muscular atrophy was transported from Cagliari to Ciampino airport by a 50 ° Stormo Falcon 31. The Operations Room of the 31st Wing, alerted by the Top Situation Room of the Air Squad Command, gave the order to take off to the Falcon 50
Arriving at the Roman airport, the young patient, who was traveling in a thermal cradle, was transported to the Bambino Gesù Hospital where she will be admitted to receive the appropriate treatment.
The aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino are used for State Transport and for public utility missions such as the medical transport of sick, severely traumatized and transplant organs, as well as for interventions in favor of compatriots, however, in situations of risk.
This last activity, given the imminent danger of life of the patients transported, imposes a level of readiness twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.
