The transport, requested by the Prefecture of Rome, was organized by the Top Situation Room of the Air Force Staff which ordered the immediate activation of the medical flight with one of the aircraft of the armed force "ready" for this kind of needs. The patient was boarded on the aircraft directly aboard an ambulance equipped with equipment for medical assistance and monitoring of vital signs, since the clinical conditions would not have allowed any interruption of the medical treatments to which he was subjected. A specialized medical team from the Tor Vergata Polyclinic in Rome is also on board. The C-130J of the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, after having boarded the ambulance at Ciampino airport, took off at 17:55 pm for Venice, where it arrived around 18:45 pm. Once on the ground the ambulance headed to Padua, at the “Gallucci” Center. Once the operations were completed, the aircraft returned to Pisa, the permanent headquarters of the department. The C-130J aircraft is a transport quad-turbine in service since 2000 in the Italian Air Force, used in Italy and abroad by the crews of the 46th Pisa Air Brigade. In addition to the transport of personnel, materials and vehicles to and from operating theaters outside national borders, the C-130Js of the Italian Air Force are also used, as in this case, for the emergency medical transport of patients in imminent danger of life. or in case of emergencies and natural disasters, always at the request of the local prefectures or the Civil Protection. The extreme flexibility of use of the aircraft, and the possibility of changing its configuration with relative ease, make the C-130J a valuable asset for the defense and security of the country. The Air Force, for example, is one of the very few air forces in the world capable of safely transporting bio-contaminated patients thanks to the use of special aviation-transportable stretchers.
Source: General Office for Communication - Public Information - Ten. Simone Antonetti
