The charter flight GE1192
from Taiwan TransAsia Airways arrives at Shijiazhuang Zhengding
International Airport early on Monday morning, November 26,
2007.
A non-stop emergency medical rescue charter flight successfully
sent an 88-year-old Taiwan patient from Shijiazhuang, capital of
northern China's Hebei province, back to Taiwan for urgent
treatment early Monday morning.
Hospital staff lift Taiwan
patient Zhao Lingwen from an ambulance onto the charter flight in
Shijiazhuang early on Monday morning, November 26, 2007.
Xinhua news agency reported that this was the first time a
non-stop emergency medical rescue charter flight was used between
Hebei and Taiwan since a special bill overseeing "humanistic
charter flights" was launched by aviation industries on the
mainland and Taiwan in June, 2006.
Hospital and police staff
lift Taiwan patient Zhao Lingwen aboard a charter flight in
Shijiazhuang early on Monday morning, November 26, 2007.
(Xinhua News Agency,
November 27, 2007)
