In the evening of May 20th, the flight from Liuzhou Bailian Airport to Chengduo Shuangliu Airport supposed to take off at 19:30 finally had all passengers got on board at 22:55, due to flight regulation at Chengdu airport for aid goods to quake-affected areas. While the plane door was about to shut down, a notice was made urgently: the plane had to wait for medicine to be delivered to Sichuan quake-affected area.
The medicine arrived half an hour later. Over 20 staff from various departments of the airport began loading immediately and finally finished at 23:54. By that time, they plane has delayed for four and half hours. When the passengers knew the reason of delaying, they expressed no anger at all but showed understanding.
Inset: airport staff was loading the medicine.
Source: Liuzhou Daily, Correspondent Li Qingsong reports