The Bundeswehr Air Force is participating in the transfer of intensive care patients in the corona pandemic for the first time.
According to the Bundeswehr, an Airbus A310 MedEvac took off on Friday shortly after 1 p.m. for Memmingen in Bavaria.
From there he is supposed to bring the seriously ill to Münster-Osnabrück Airport in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The arrival of the machine was planned for the early evening.
Cologne / Berlin - For the first time, the Bundeswehr is helping to relieve hospitals in regions with a particularly large number of corona patients.
The Air Force has two aircraft ready for the relief mission.
This includes the Airbus A310 MedEvac, a "flying intensive care unit" with six treatment places, as well as a converted special machine, the surveillance aircraft A319OH.
Two places for intensive treatment were built into this.
An A400M MedEvac is also stationed in Wunstorf (Lower Saxony).
dpa