Flying high once more

A brain tumor nearly grounded a veteran fighter pilot forever but Shen Wenjie was determined to get back in the air, he tells Peng Yining in Yantai, Shandong province.

While he has never fought in real combat fighter pilot Shen Wenjie faced the fight of his life against a brain tumor.

Around midnight one night in March 2010, the 39-year-old Shen fell into a brief coma without warning. He was sent to hospital for a craniotomy, a surgical operation in which a bone flap is temporarily removed from the skull. Doctors found a tumor, as big as a chicken egg, in his brain.