Humanitarian flight for urgent transplantation

01/07/15

The Air Force immediately responded to the request made today by the prefecture of Lecce to the Situation Room of the Air Squad Command, for urgent medical transport to be operated in favor of a Salento patient of 53 years.

A Falcon 50 aircraft from Ciampino's 31 ° Stormo landed in Brindisi in the middle of the night where he boarded the patient and then transported her to Turin for subsequent hospitalization at the Molinette hospital, where she will undergo lung transplantation.

The 50 Falcon of the Ciampino 31 ° Stormo, in 24 operational readiness hours on 24 for emergency medical flights, after receiving the order from the Top Situation Room of the Team Command it promptly took off for the Brindisi airport, where it arrived at the 02: 10 and, on board the patient and the spouse who accompanied her, took off for the Turin Caselle airport.

Source: Brindisi Airport Detachment - first m.llo lgt. Michele Candeloro