DM Monitoring
URUMQI: Airline staff in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region made a rare decision earlier this month after their aircraft was poised for takeoff: driving the plane back to the terminal for the sake of speed.
The last flight from south Xinjiang’s Hotan City to the regional capital city Urumqi was about to take off when an anxious father appeared at the terminal pleading for help as the clock approached midnight on April 30.
The Uygur man’s seven-year-old son had broken his arm in a tractor accident and was in urgent need of surgery in Urumqi, and the last flight to the regional capital was their only hope to retain the boy’s arm.
It didn’t take long before the airliner and related departments as well as the passengers onboard decided to come back to pick up the special passengers.
The cabin crew set up a special space for the injured boy on the plane and later donated money to help the family.
In about one and a half hours, the plane landed at the airport in Urumqi, where a special medical team quickly took the boy to a local hospital.
A string of green channels including a police car leading the way were utilized to make the trip to the hospital as fast as possible.
