Medical transport: intense week for the 31 ° Stormo

11/11/14

From Monday 3 to Sunday 9 November the Falcon 50 and Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of the air force carried out seven emergency medical flights in favor of as many fellow countrymen in imminent danger of life.

On Monday a first flight of a Falcon 900 of the 93rd Flying Group transported a 3-year-old girl suffering from a serious pathology from Alghero to Genoa. The flight, which took off from the Ligurian airport in the late morning, allowed the baby to be entrusted to the doctors of the Gaslini hospital after only one hour of transport.

Later in the late evening another flight, always on Falcon 900, transported a girl from Bari to Ciampino to be urgently subjected to a delicate transplant operation.

On Wednesday 5 November, a Falcon 50 of the 306th Flight Group took off in the night for Pisa to pick up a medical team and urgently transport it to Bari. Once in the Apulian capital, the crew then carried out the transport of organs again for Pisa.

On Friday 7 November a Falcon 50 transported another patient in need of transplantation from Lamezia Terme to Ciampino overnight. On the Saturday day, however, a Falcon 900 carried out a double transport for the same purpose, first transporting a patient from Lamezia Terme to Naples to also receive a transplant and at the same time taking another patient from the same Campanian airport to take instead to Rome.

At dawn on Sunday, the flight that concluded the intense week of interventions in favor of the civilian population involved a fifty-two-year-old from Palermo who in the morning boarded a Falcon 900 from the Department to fly to Milan Linate, where doctors of the transplant center of the Milanese capital were waiting for her to carry out an important intervention.

Source: Aeronautica Militare, ten. with the. Alberto Say it, chap. Daniele Lelli