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)