On the night of Tuesday 8 March, the prefecture of Catania requested the Summit Situation Room of the Command of the Air Squad, the operational room of the Air Force the transport of a patient from Catania to Florence who needed to undergo a transplant at the University Hospital of Pisa.
The Falcon of the 31 ° Stormo, arrived in Florence, first entrusted the patient to an ambulance that had come to pick it up and then boarded a medical team from the same hospital to haul it to Naples where the doctors carried out the organ removal. donated.
During the delicate intervention, a new request for transport reached the 31 flock and the Falcon 900 that was parked at the Capodichino airport to await the end of the explant operation and re-transport the team and the organ to Pisa, had to take off for a new emergency medical transport from Brindisi to Treviso.
In the early morning of 9 March, once the explantation was over, the medical team with the organ boarded another Falcon 900 at the Capodichino airport to take off for Florence.
The staff of the Airport Command supported the need for aircraft and medical personnel in the airport services normally activated for institutional tasks.
The intervention is part of the institutional tasks that the Air Force performs daily in favor of the community with its own aircraft and through the support of air bases, such as the Capodichino Airport Command, which operate daily in the various local realities.
The Capodichino Airport Command, currently dependent on the Support and Special Forces Command, was designed and built to be the headquarters of the Air Force Academy, formerly the operational base of the 4th Wing and the 4th Interceptor Aerobrigata, as well as the 86th AntiSom Group, today ensures logistical support to various co-located bodies (5th Aircraft Maintenance Group, 12th Detached Technical Service, Naples Territorial Technical Office of the Aeronautical Armaments Directorate for Airworthiness, 6th Flight Department of the State Police, Air Section of the Finance, Canine Unit of the State Police and the Guardia di Finanza) and to the US Naval Support Activity and to various US Commands hosted on the military grounds of the airport, in respect of which it guarantees the exercise of national sovereignty, supervises the application of the agreements bilateral related to the presence of US departments stationed or deployed on the airport, supervising the activity of vol o is operational, and acts as the link with national authorities at local level. Furthermore, in the context of community services, it provides scheduled flight support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to military and state flights, as well as to those for the air transport of organs and patients in need of urgent care. often in imminent danger of life.
