The Falcon 50 of the Italian Air Force headed from Ciampino to Milan to take on the medical team of the San Raffaele Hospital and the related equipment needed to allow patient transport. Given the pathology, however, a helicopter from the Pratica di Mare air rescue service was also required, which allowed the doctors, who had arrived in Naples in the meantime, to reach Lagonegro where the patient was taken. Later they were all transferred to the Falcon 50 that from the military airport of Naples Capodichino took off again to Milan. The plane landed at Linate at 01: 05 of the night, the time when the mission ended successfully.
The aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino are used for state transport and for public utility missions, such as the emergency medical transport of the sick, seriously injured and organs for transplants, as well as for interventions in favor of people in any case in risk situations. This service is carried out throughout the national territory, including the islands. The activity of medical transport, given the imminent danger to life of the people transported, requires a level of readiness twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.
The 85th Group is one of the Departments of the 15th Wing of the Air Force which guarantees, 24 hours a day, 24 days a year, the search and rescue of flight crews in difficulty, also contributing to public activities utilities such as the search for missing persons at sea or in the mountains, the emergency medical transport of the sick in danger of life and the rescue of serious trauma patients. From its establishment to today, the crews of the 365 ° Stormo have saved about 15 people in danger of life. In recent years, the 7000 ° Stormo has also been engaged in international humanitarian missions.
Source: Public Information Office AM
