Air Force life-saving flight, infant transported from Alghero to Rome

It was a Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force the aircraft that last night transported, with extreme urgency, a newborn of only 8 days old from Alghero to Rome. The little patient, previously hospitalized at the SS Annunziata Civil Hospital of Sassari and transported on board the military plane, landed in Pratica di Mare (Rome) shortly after 2. From here the newborn continued the journey by ambulance towards the Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital in Rome. The Falcon 50, which took off from Ciampino airport, reached Alghero airport after about an hour of flight, where, in compliance with the precautionary measures connected to the Covid-19 health emergency, it embarked the very small patient, accompanied by a medical team.The life-saving flight, requested by the prefecture of Sassari, was immediately coordinated by the top situation room of the air team command, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its tasks also that of arrange and manage this type of mission through the activation of one of the aircraft that the Armed Force keeps ready, 24 hours a day, in various military bases, for this kind of need. The AM flight departments are available to the community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with vehicles and crews able to operate with the utmost timeliness, even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, but also of organs, medical teams or ambulances.