Medical staff assist an injured Taiwan tourist aboard a microbus. Fourteen Taiwan tourists who have been receiving medical treatment in northeast China's Jilin Province after a bus crash have flied home by chartered plane on Tuesday, Sep 19, 2006. [Xinhua]

YANJI, Jilin -- A charter plane with 14 Taiwan tourists aboard who were injured in a September 11 bus crash left Yanji Airport in northeast China's Jilin Province at 7:48 a.m. on Tuesday for Taiwan.

The plane is expected to pass by Hong Kong and arrive at the Taipei Airport at 1 p.m., sources from the International SOS North Asia said.

An accident occurred at 9:40 a.m. on September 11 on a highway in Wangqing County of Jilin, when a 20-member Taiwanese tourist group were traveling from neighboring Heilongjiang Province to Jilin. The bus first crashed into the protection rail on the highway and then fell off 26 meters into a river.

Two Taiwanese women and the bus driver from the Chinese mainland were killed and 18 others were all injured.