It took about 26 flight hours from one of the 900 Falcon 31 Stormos to bring a newborn baby from a countryman in the Asian country to the world from a month in the Asian country from Shanghai, China.
Affected by a serious and very rare neonatal pathology, the child was declared incurable by Chinese doctors, but doctors from the Gaslini hospital in Genoa, on the basis of medical reports, expressed a different opinion expressing the reasonable certainty of being able to save the child as long as the care had started immediately.
From this hope on Wednesday, late in the evening, the input of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) to the Armed Forces for a humanitarian flight was born which would bring the child to Italy to ensure the necessary care, the necessary coordination between the situation room took place from here of the Air Squad command, the 31 Stormo, the MAE with its consular units of Beijing and Shanghai and the Neonatal Emergency Transport Service (STEN) of the same Gaslini.
At dawn on Friday 22 July a crew of the 93 Special Transport group took off from Ciampino to Genoa to embark the STEN specialist team and fly to the Chinese megalopolis.
Arrived in China after 13 flight hours, to wait for the Falcon 900 at the Shanghai airport parking lot there was already an ambulance with the little patient and the parents who would take him back to Italy, as well as another crew of the 93 group arrived a few hours before in China and ready to give the change to colleagues who have just landed in order to immediately return home.
After more 13 flight hours, at the local 13.30 on Saturday 23 July, the return mission ended with the landing in Genoa where an STEN ambulance and other doctors and Gaslini operators were waiting for the child for the final hospitalization and the start of care.
Also in Genoa, a third crew from the 93 group again alternated with colleagues returning from China to carry out yet another humanitarian transport from Genoa to Bari.
