An airport staff member walks past a China Southern Airlines aircraft stranded due to heavy fog at Xiantao International Airport in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province December 13.

 

Passengers are seen at the waiting room as more than a thousand people have been stranded due to thick fog and poor visibility at the Xiantao International Airport in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province December 13.

 

An airport staff member uses an interphone beside an aircraft stranded due to heavy fog at Xiantao International Airport in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province December 13.

 

A security guard stands beside an aircraft stranded due to heavy fog at Xiantao International Airport in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province December 13.

 

(Xinhua News Agency December 14, 2006)